Education : Distance Education & Learning

'Blended learning' is a workable solution that allows trainers and staff developers to integrate online learning within a broader range of more traditional learning techniques. Demonstrating how old and new methods of improving staff performance and learning can work together to give better results, this work aims to provide an ideal guidebook to creating a new style of training. It shows how the concept of blended learning can be applied most effectively as it helps readers make the first steps into developing a blended training programme. more...

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This curriculum-based motivational group model has broad application for all treatment providers, counselors, therapists, educators and other human service practitioners. It allows for the facilitation and implementation of motivational interviewing strategies within five group sessions. This group process and approach elicits and effects positive change in the lives of people struggling with life choices and personal behavior affecting their overall health, wellbeing and functioning. *NOTE: Changing behavior can be any behavior or life change (i.e. anger, addictions, leaving an abusive relationship, illegal behaviors, taking medications, managing health concerns, changing careers and going back to school). more...

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E-learning is built from processes, products, services, and technologies - but it is none of those things. Instead, it is a strategic approach to learning in the corporation. Without a robust, business-driven strategy to guide implementation and delivery, e-learning is bound to fail. E-Learning Strategies is designed to help decision takers and implementation teams understand the elements of e-learning and the issues surrounding them. With chapters divided into What You Need to Know and What You Need to Do, E-Learning Strategies is a valuable resource for anyone responsible for e-learning strategy and execution. more...

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In “Enrolling Our Adult Learners Back into School” readers learn that “effecting change is a process.” This motivational interviewing engagement process has broad application for all educators, vocational trainers, mentorship & tutorial programs, and other human service practitioners working with adult learners. It allows for the facilitation and implementation of motivational interviewing strategies within five sessions to engage our adult learners back into school. This process and approach elicits and effects positive change in the lives of people struggling with life choices and personal decisions, affecting their overall health, wellbeing and functioning. Ambivalence is a key obstacle to change – throughout this manual reasons for keeping the status quo (e.g. Not going back to school) and reasons for a lifestyle change (e.g. Going back to school) will both be explored. more...

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Authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have written a comprehensive reference for faculty to use to hone their skills as online instructors and for students to use to become more effective online learners. Filled with numerous examples from actual online courses and insights from teachers and students, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom covers the entire online teaching process. more...

Price: $38.00