Bøger af Susan Smith Nash

Poems: geological, geographical, lithological

E-Learning Success: From Courses to Careers is a wide-ranging, robust, and always useful collection of articles that help you succeed in your online courses, complete your online program, and to find a satisfying career in an ever-changing world. Many of the most common worries and concerns are addressed as Dr. Susan Smith Nash, who has designed, developed, and administered e-learning and m-learning programs in a wide range of fields, guides you on your path. You'll enjoy the humor, the quirky perspective, and the always upbeat and positive tone of the articles, even as you mine them for information that you can put to work today.Nash has received numerous awards and recognitions for her articles, blogs, and programs she has designed, and she is known as a turnaround specialist, who can take flagging programs and put them on their feet so that they start carrying their weight in their organization and contributing to the overall prestige, mission, and bottom line.

Today's e-learning organization - college, university, school, training unit, or business -- faces unique challenges, and this book of essays and articles is an invaluable resource. In this book by Susan Smith Nash, who has been involved in the development and administration of distance and online courses since the early 1990s, you will find articles on leadership, teaching, curriculum, e-learning "in extremus," technology (including the theory and effective use of podcasts, blogs, and new popular technology-forward devices), student needs and instructional activities that bring about highly effective learning situations. The articles in this book answer your questions. The solid scholarship and resources for further study help you succeed in the ever-evolving world of e-learning.

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Leverage Moodle 4.0's improved UX features and new tools to create effective courses in today's competitive world of online learning, including blended live and on-demand deliveryKey Features:Design courses that are easy to navigate and have easy-to-use productivity toolsEffectively incorporate text, audio, video, and graphics that are ADA compliant and meet the needs of all kinds of learnersBuild the best assessment tools for your learning objectivesBook Description:Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success.This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform's new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You'll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0's new navigation features to help keep students from getting "lost." Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world.By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.What You Will Learn:Build courses that emphasize the achievement of learning objectivesWrite a variety of effective quizzes that can be taken online and offlineMake the most of the navigation and user experience improvements made to Moodle 4.0Build courses that reflect current interactive teaching practices, including hybrid learning with web conferencingOptimize all kinds of content - text, graphics, audio, video, and recorded webcastsEncourage student engagement and collaborationIncorporate functionality builders for more responsive and adaptive learningWho this book is for:This book is for novice as well as experienced course developers who want to incorporate Moodle 4.0's powerful features and make life easier for students, instructors, and administrators. The powerful and flexible Moodle platform will also help with accreditation and for deploying across devices to people in diverse situations.

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3.x E-Learning Course Development guides you through ...

Complete with easy-to-follow instructions, Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques helps you leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses for a wide range of platforms, including mobile and cloud. This updated edition will show you how to use the latest features of Moodle for developing dynamic teaching courses.

Susan Smith Nash''s work investigates the how the apocalyptic narrative has been used historically and continues to be used to manipulate followers, who are, in many instances, complicit in their own subjugation, due to a wide array of reasons. This dissertation examines the origin of the apocalyptic narrative, its evolution over time, and its occurrence in twentieth-century American film and literature. It also examines the use of the apocalyptic narrative in cultural applications, namely the use of them in suicidal or violent cults.