Great news! My friend Maxim
Jean-Louis, President of Contact North a distance learning organization in
Ontario, Canada, asked me to be a research associate with Contact North/Nord.
Maxim and I are exploring the possibility of having 1-2 online panel sessions
in Zoom of a few book chapter contributors in August to help promote the new MOOCs
and Open Ed in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities (MOOCSbook.com; Amazon).
First, due to COVID-19, we all know
that instructors throughout the world and in every educational sector are
seeking to integrate online technology in effective and creative ways to
motivate their learners. Therefore, Maxim is having me do a free international
webinar on my “TEC-VARIETY” book (http://tec-variety.com/) Monday June 29 at
10:15-11:15 EST, Session: How to Motivate and Retain Learners Online,.
Contact North | Contact Nord Webinars. Registration. Over 400 people have signed up
already without advertising. So we increased the max to 500.
About Contact
North: “As a community-based organization, Contact North | Contact
Nord helps underserved Ontarians in 600 small, rural, remote, Indigenous and
Francophone communities get jobs by making it possible for them to access
education and training without leaving their communities.”
Webinar: How to Motivate and
Retain Online Learners
Session
Objectives:
- Learn
10 fully documented and theoretically driven motivational principles that
foster interactivity and engagement online.
- Find
out how to inspire your online learners with an assembly of meaningful and
purposeful learning activities. Simply put, bored and unengaged online
learners will be a thing of the past.
- Discover
a realistic path toward meaningful and engaging online learning.
- Learn
the simple and flexible framework for motivating online learners that
works.
- Learn
about research backed and proven interactive online ideas and activities.
- Grasp how to implement a simple
and flexible frameworks—TEC-VARIETY--for motivating and engaging online
learners that work.
Question: What motivates?
Answer: A little TEC-VARIETY!
To simplify
Web-based learning possibilities, each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands
for a well-known motivational principle, including the following:
Abstract: In the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is talking about
the need to motivate and engage students. In response, instructors throughout
the world are seeking to integrate online technology in effective and creative
ways. In this session, Professor Curt Bonk will detail one of his designs for
engaging online learning. He believes that learners simply want more variety,
or more specifically, they want ‘TEC-VARIETY’. Fortunately, his “Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+ Activities for
Motivating and Retaining Learners Online” book is free to download in both
English and Chinese at: http://tec-variety.com/.
In 2014, Dr. Elaine Khoo at the University of Waikato in New Zealand
and I authored the book, "Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+ Activities
for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online" (Note; This book is available free at: http://tec-variety.com/). Download by chapter. This book is available in English and
Chinese. It has been downloaded well over 250,000 times.
Bio:
Dr. Curt Bonk is
Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University where he
teaches psychology and technology courses. From
2012 to 2018, Bonk has been annually named by Education Next and listed
in Education Week among the top contributors to the public debate about
education from more than 20,000 university-based academics. In 2020, Curt was awarded the IU
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology. He has given more 1,700 talks and
published a dozen books, including his groundbreaking 2020 volume with
Routledge, MOOCs and Open Education in
the Global South as well as The
World Is Open, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of
Blended Learning, Electronic Collaborators, Adding Some
TEC-VARIETY (free as an eBook http://tec-variety.com/). His research focuses on emerging learning technologies,
online and blended learning, MOOCs and open education, and the global impacts
from collaborative technology. He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu and his homepage is http://curtbonk.com/.
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