This user-friendly resource offers direct guidance on the steps K-12 educators must take to facilitate online learning and maximize student growth using readily available digital tools.
Discusses the social implications of e-learning, its transformative effects, and the social and technical interplay that supports and directs e-learning.
Provides expert opinions and insights on the practice and policy in K-12 online, blended and distance education, online and blended programs, including curriculum, instruction, technology and management aspects.
Provides a multifaceted look at online instruction from a variety of authors and may assist instructors who teach online or will teach online in the future.
Shows how to structure online and blended courses for student engagement, build relationships with online students, facilitate discussion boards, collaborate online, design online assessments, and much more.
Brings together the best tools, ideas, examples, resources and lessons to help educators create unique and modern curricula to motivate their students.
Based on extensive experience and research, chapters cover a full spectrum of topics including virtual course development, online learning in elementary classrooms, instructional assessment and differentiating online instruction, professional development for teachers of virtual courses, and the challenges that virtual schools will face in the future.