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Adding Some TEC-VARIETY
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Many ideas and events led to the development of the TEC-VARIETY framework and the 100+ activities for motivating and retaining online learners described in this book. Much of it has its roots in the mid-1980s, long before most educators had ever heard of online learning.
At the time, Bonk was, in fact, a deeply bored accountant working in a high-technology company. In his spare time, he enrolled in paper-based correspondence and television courses as well as outreach and extension courses to qualify for graduate school in ed- ucational psychology at the University of Wisconsin. During these courses, he learned much content knowledge in education as well as psychology. Perhaps more important, Bonk gained an appreciation for the multiple modes of educational delivery as well as the varied ways in which learners could access courses, and then change or improve their lives. When online learning began taking off a little over a decade later, he coordi- nated several national research projects on the state of e-learning and blended learning in both higher education and corporate training in the United States. His research soon entered into K–12 and military training settings and then expanded globally.
In each project, many benefits and challenges regarding online learning were document- ed. For instance, as with centuries of correspondence and face-to-face (F2F) courses, most online courses initially relied on text alone. There was often a cookie-cutter or one-size-fits-all mentality of the right way to do things and often a favored instructional design model that would win the day
Curtis J. Bonk and Elaine Khoo - Personal Name
1st Edtion
13: 978-1496162724
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Adding Some TEC-VARIETY
Information Technology
English
Open World Books
2014
USA
1-384
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