Diane Grodney, Clinical Associate Professor, New York University
"Dr. Bender provides a timely, provocative and intelligent vehicle for considering deep questions about online teaching."
Kathleen Hull, Adj. Assoc. Prof. of the Humanities, New York University
"[Bender] is a teachers' teacher who carries us beyond 'click-happy techies,' into the deep waters of learning itself."
Zane L. Berge, Department of Education, UMBC, Baltimore, and author of
"Anyone who needs to understand the components of teaching online will benefit from this book."
Book Description
As online courses proliferate, teachers increasingly realize that they have to connect with their students as they would in face-to-face classes. They have to provide true opportunities for inspirational and meaningful learning, rather than a sterile experience of clicking within a labyrinth of links. With the specific purpose of switching emphasis from the technical issues of online teaching to the human implications of teaching and learning through the Internet, Tisha Bender draws on her extensive research, her training of online faculty, and her own online teaching experience, to create a fresh vision of online pedagogy. Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning consists of three parts: Theory Practice Assessment The author shows how she applies learning theories to online discussion-based courses. She presents a wealth of suggestions and techniques, illustrated by real examples, for stimulating and managing online discussion effectively, and for improving teaching practices. The book concludes with methods for assessing the efficacy of online courses. This accessible and comprehensive book offers an engaging and practical approach to online teaching that is rooted in the author's experience and enthusiasm for creating a virtual environment that involves students and fosters deep learning. This is a book for all educators and administrators in higher education, in any discipline, engaged in, or contemplating offering, online classes that involve discussion or collaborative learning. It is relevant both to faculty teaching a hybrid class (a class taught on campus that also has an online component) and courses that are taught entirely online.
Book Info
Text shows how learning theories can be applied to online discussion-based courses. Presents suggestions, techniques, and examples for stimulating and managing online discussions effectively. Softcover. DLC: Internet in higher education--Social aspects.
About the Author
Tisha Bender is an Online Faculty Development Consultant, who has extensively trained online faculty at New York University, the SUNY Learning Network, New School Online University and Cornell University-ILR Extension, and is also an online instructor at Cornell and the New School.
Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment FROM THE PUBLISHER
As online courses proliferate, teachers increasingly realize that they have to connect with their students as they would in face-to-face classes. They have to provide true opportunities for inspirational and meaningful learning, rather than a sterile experience of clicking within a labyrinth of links. With the specific purpose of switching emphasis from the technical issues of online teaching to the human implications of teaching and learning through the Internet, Tisha Bender draws on her extensive research, her training of online faculty, and her own online teaching experience, to create a fresh vision of online pedagogy. Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning consists of three parts: Theory Practice Assessment The author shows how she applies learning theories to online discussion-based courses. She presents a wealth of suggestions and techniques, illustrated by real examples, for stimulating and managing online discussion effectively, and for improving teaching practices. The book concludes with methods for assessing the efficacy of online courses. This accessible and comprehensive book offers an engaging and practical approach to online teaching that is rooted in the author's experience and enthusiasm for creating a virtual environment involves students and fosters deep learning. This is a book for all educators and administrators in higher education, in any discipline, engaged in, or contemplating offering, online classes that involve discussion or collaborative learning. It is relevant both to faculty teaching a hybrid class (a class taught on campus that also has an online component) and courses that are taught entirely online.
SYNOPSIS
As online courses proliferate, teachers increasingly realize that they have to connect with their students as they would in face-to-face classes. They have to provide true opportunities for inspirational and meaningful learning, rather than a sterile experience of clicking within a labyrinth of links.With the specific purpose of switching emphasis from the technical issues of online teaching to the human implications of teaching and learning through the Internet, Tisha Bender draws on her extensive research, her training of online faculty, and her own online teaching experience, to create a fresh vision of online pedagogy. Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning consists of three parts:
Theory
Practice
Assessment
The author shows how she applies learning theories to online discussion-based courses. She presents a wealth of suggestions and techniques, illustrated by real examples, for stimulating and managing online discussion effectively, and for improving teaching practices. The book concludes with methods for assessing the efficacy of online courses. This accessible and comprehensive book offers an engaging and practical approach to online teaching that is rooted in the author's experience and enthusiasm for creating a virtual environment involves students and fosters deep learning. This is a book for all educators and administrators in higher education, in any discipline, engaged in, or contemplating offering, online classes that involve discussion or collaborative learning. It is relevant both to faculty teaching a hybrid class (a class taught on campus that also has an online component) and courses that are taught entirely online.
FROM THE CRITICS
Diane Grodney - Clinical Associate Professor, New York University
Dr. Bender provides a timely, provocative and intelligent vehicle for considering deep questions about online teaching. Her writing is conceptually elegant, professionally revitalizing, and profoundly reflective of the process of online teaching. You'll no longer feel the same 'pedagogical loneliness' in cyberspace!
Zane L. Berge - Department of Education, UMBC, Baltimore, and author of "Sustaining distance training: Integrating learning technologies into the fabric of the enterprise"
Anyone who needs to understand the components of teaching online will benefit from this book. Bender has extracted powerful strategies for online learning. A practical book that also gives her views on why learning can be effective online.
Kathleen Hull
Tisha Bender stands alone in the pedagogy of on-line teaching and learning. She is a teachers' teacher who carries us beyond "click-happy techies, " into the deep waters of learning itself. In these practical essays, Prof. Bender offers creative ideas for both new and experienced distance educators. Her subtle understanding of the challenges of on-line classrooms is positively inspirational.
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