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Online Learning: Concepts, Strategies, and Application

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The book I received has a poor binding, and the pages appear to be photocopied. Text is difficult to read, and images that were obviously originally in color are only black-and-white blurs. Amazon.com sent me a replacement copy, but it had the same defects.

I strongly suggest purchasing this book from a college bookstore or other reputable source if at all possible.

I used this book throughout my entire Master's Program in Instructional Design and Development. It is a great resource for online learning, especially when designing constructivist learning environment. I do agree that the production quality is really cheap and most of the pages do look like photocopies, however my book has held up through 2 years of courses (and I reference it often). I would highly recommend this book for its content, if you can get over the photocopy-looking pages.

I haven't read the whole book yet, actually I'm not even through Chapter 1, but my book is already falling apart! First of all, the pages look like they were copied using an old, crappy xerox machine (the one at the school where I teach would've done better)! Then, I started reading the book for my class and the pages started falling out! I'm not even through the first chapter! It might be a great book (can't tell yet), but I am VERY dis-satisfied with the quality of the book!

This book is being sold as "New", and for the price the print quality is horrible. It should really be sold for $10.00 - $15.00 at the most. I'm not sure of the QA policy set in place, but there is none for this book. Very disappointed.

Very difficult read. The authors are not consistent with their terminology and tend to be overly wordy.

This was the text for a graduate level online class. I found it difficult to read and understand because of the large amount of verbiage. It read like an in-depth psychology text that in part was what it is. Teaching Online by Draves was a much better book but it lacked the heavy content. It was more on the common sense approach to online teaching.

I am a professor of educational technology. I've used this book for 2 semesters with a graduate students in an educational technology masters program. It was the primary text for a course on the design of online learning environments. Each semester I asked my students in their anonymous course evaluations to give me feedback on this book. There has been almost unanimous praise for this book from students. I have been satisfied with it as well. It is organized logically, moving from the conceptual to the highly practical. Each chapter begins with a set of diverse case examples that create a context for the following content, helping to make it more relevant and tangible to the reader. The book thoroughly cites it's sources including much research. My students used the concepts and guidelines in this book to work on a handful of increasingly complex projects in which they conceptualized and designed online learning modules and environments. The book was a great resource for them. They all felt it was written at an appropriate level for them (my students are mostly working K-12 teachers). I recommend this book.