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Online Student Skills and Strategies Handbook

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This is a valuable resource for students interested in a successful on-line learning experience. The straightforward and practical examples should help guide everyone from novice to experienced.

I was very impressed with the format, content, attention to detail, step-by-step approach to help users work through technology, and the success-oriented focus of the text. The first chapter utilized an innovative and unique assessment to help users identify what they already know and what they will need to focus on to learn. The text is a well-designed and non-threatening resource for any online user.

I think this text is a practical and useful guide for both novice and experienced online students. The information is very well organized throughout with a couple great appendices containing websites and computer skill tips. The helpful screenshots and lay flat binding are a plus for use as you are working on the computer.

This book is a true student service for online learning and is a great step toward online student retention! It covers everything the online student would need to know in order to succeed in a self-paced, self-motivated, and technology dependant environment!!

I compared Online Student Skills and Strategies Handbook (Pearson Longman 2006) to E-Learning Companion A Student's Guide to Online Success (Houghton Mifflin 2005) in order to select a resourse to support distance learning. I found Online Student Skills and Strateiges Handbook much more useful, learner oriented and readily accessible. It includes large, clear screen captures to accompany step by step directions. It handles practical topics like using Rich Text Format (RTF), practicing netiquette, storing lessons in a binder, and submitting assignments. It also includes cross references to other relevant chapters in the handbook, and it includes other Internet resources for each chapter. In comparison, E-Learning seems too textbookish. While E-Learning has a useful glossary and index, Online Student Skills and Strategies has a glossary, index and Webliography.

I started taking classes on-line. This book is a life-savor for the computer illiterate. Everything is explained in plain English. The instructional illustrations are exact images that are on your computer screen. There is a world of information available through the Internet. This is the "how-to" book that every student should use to navigate through cyberspace. I highly recommend this book for any student whether taking on-line courses or in a classroom setting.

This Handbook assembles a wealth of information for the online learner. The format and binding make it even more useful. I could open to a section that I needed and lay it flat on my desk as I was working. The websites were particularly useful.

While the Handbook is targeted to Online learners there is plenty of great information for online instructors as well. Someone finally got all the pieces together in one place!

Purchased this textbook for an online course. Item arrived very quickly with no problems. I will use this seller again if needed.