Soon on Amazon in printed and eBook format Master Online Teaching
Master Online Teaching offers educators using the Internet a way to:
- Better sustain the attention of their students,
- Help them understand faster,
- Help them memorize for longer, and
- Speed up the application of the contents in study.
In this book I start by describing the way that perception and cognition seem to work and consequently lay out a plan on how to organize educational content and how to deliver it to the students in a way that quickly and with an economy of resources achieves educational goals. In the process, the role of the educator becomes vital and central again and new opportunities for graded assessment emerge. After presenting a model for effective online teaching I devote several chapters to introduce concrete procedures and practical advice to produce content.
The democratization of education and instruction
Distance education has empowered individuals, providing them with opportunities to learn and grow regardless of their location or background. The flexibility of online learning has allowed learners to balance work and education and has opened doors for many people who could not pursue their educational dreams due to financial, physical or geographical constraints.
The benefits of distance education extend beyond individual growth. Distance education has also been a critical tool in overcoming some educational disparities that exist in society. With online learning, students from disadvantaged backgrounds and marginalized communities can access quality education, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty and inequality; and this is very important to me.
Consistently effective content
Master Online Teaching introduces fundamental concepts for the communication of didactic content in distance education, allowing educators to consistently produce effective and efficient content for achieving educational goals. By focusing on the perception and cognition of audiovisual media, the text provides concrete notions that make didactic content easier to follow, understand, memorize, and apply.
Master Online Teaching covers fundamental concepts like:
- The multimodal nature of percepts,
- The inner images and their different orders of magnitude,
- The subconscious mnemonic reserve,
- Perceptual language,
- The continuous event and
- Perceptual thinking.
The text illustrates these concepts in detail, explaining what they are, how to generate them, and how to use them. This allows educators not only the ability to build and deliver their own content but also to assess the efficacy of content created by third parties they could plan to use.
What some readers have said...
Masterful and perfectly well-written. This book addresses online education with an easy reading and amiable style. It does not disregard thorough analysis and detailed explanations. Soundly grounded on Radical Constructivism and the Biological Theory of Knowledge, it doesn’t forget to mention practical issues, such as content organization, production techniques, and software recommendations. A must-have.