Creating the Anywhere, Anytime Classroom: A Blueprint for Learning Online in Grades K--12, Mar/2017
| Author(s) | Casey Reason, Lisa Reason, Crystal Guiler |
| ISBN10 | 1943874867 |
| ISBN13 | 9781943874866 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 168 |
| Year Publish | 2017 March |
Synopsis
Discover how to enhance student learning in online and blended classrooms. This user-friendly resource offers direct guidance on the steps K–12 educators must take to facilitate online learning and maximize student growth using digital tools. Each chapter includes suggestions, tips, and examples tied to pedagogical practices associated with learning online, so you can confidently engage in the best practices with your students.
- Use technology tools like online classroom platforms and apps to foster digitally enhanced learning.
- Understand the benefits of learning online and its advantages over traditional real-world classrooms.
- Learn how to effectively facilitate digital learning experiences.
- Study the challenges and opportunities teaching online offers.
- Gain strategies and examples to help initiate and sustain learning while engaging students.
About The Authors:
Dr. Casey Reason is the director of the Center for PLCs and Virtual Collaboration for the University of Toledo. He has chaired more than 60 dissertations and is an expert in educational research.
His six books have won numerous awards, including Phi Delta Kappa Book of the Year, and finalist for IndieFABs Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. His first book was endorsed by the best-selling author of The One-Minute Manager, Dr. Ken Blanchard, and he coauthored a book in 2016 with Dr. Richard DuFour.
Casey has designed more than 100 digital graduate-level courses and training experiences and was recognized in Forbes.com in 2011 for winning a Blackboard International Course Designer of the Year Award. Dr. Reason also was the inaugural chair of leadership studies at Grand Canyon University, where he oversaw program growth from 50 learners to over 5,000 in a period of 48 months. As an urban high school principal, his school was formally recognized by the State of Ohio for dramatic turnaround improvement in student achievement. He is currently a trainer and advisor for the Ed Communities Network (NEA), an international digital collaborative with more than 15,000 educators working together to improve professional practice in the name of improving the lives of the students they serve.
He earned a PhD from Bowling Green State University.
Lisa Reason, PhD, has been teaching and designing digital graduate curriculum for more than twelve years. She successfully led the development of numerous masters’ and doctoral programs and is widely recognized as an expert in online learning.
Dr. Reason has been a featured presenter at a number of scholarly and practitioner-based conferences and has chaired numerous dissertations and research initiatives on topics related to digital learning, instructional practice, leadership, and school reform. She has also created uniquely innovative digital training and induction solutions for educators new to the profession.
She was the recipient of a 2011 doctoral honorarium for distinguished faculty and outstanding instructional practice by Grand Canyon University and three separate honoraria from Capella University for excellence in scholarship and significant contribution to professional practice.
Dr. Reason earned her MEd in education administration from Bowling Green State University and her PhD in leadership for K–12 programs from Capella University.
