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Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning)
Conquering the Content A StepbyStep Guide to Online Course Design - Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning Author:Robin M. Smith Conquering the Content provides a highly-practical blue-print for online course development. While providing guidance for incorporating learning theory into online courses, this book primarily furnishes online instructors with the practical templates, learning guides, and sample files to construct and manage their course content. Since the book?... more »s first publication in 2008, a critical element has been added to the author?s system of designing online courses, the graphical course overview. The graphical course overview provides a visual representation of the overall organization of course topics and helps anchor the topics for students and provides a scaffold for content organization and information retrieval cues. The forms provided in the book are extremely popular and will be updated to include completed versions from a variety of disciplines. The integration of the graphical course overview throughout the book will provide a more holistic and practical approach for faculty who may not have committed to developing an online course yet. The rapid changes in online learning underscore the need for a book to incorporate recent advances within the field. Inclusion of information on both accelerated online courses and competency-based education will help the book appeal to a wider audience.« less