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Designing effective instruction is hard. So, too, is designing engaging experiences. Doing both together is even harder! Fortunately, Conceicao and Howles have written a principled yet practical guide to systematically creating engaging and effective online courses. Recommended. --Clark Quinn Quinnovation From the Foreword: Designing the Online Learning Experience delivers the inspiration and guidance that online instructors and course designers need right now. While the COVID-19 pandemic will undoubtedly end, the widespread repercussions of higher education's immersion in online education will not. Experienced online instructors were forced to dig deeper and think differently to meet student demands that had not previously existed. Instructors new to online teaching were pressed to reconsider the fundamental meaning of effective teaching and explore the potential available via online education. The questions, concerns, and challenges raised during the pandemic-induced shift to online teaching and learning are not likely to fade as we return to normal. Higher education is ripe for a new approach to meaningful, engaging, learner-centered online education. And Designing the Online Learning Experience provides it. --B. Jean Mandernach, Research Professor & Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching Grand Canyon University This book is a great practical guide for any educator charged with developing and teaching online courses. It includes many useful strategies that can be implemented immediately. --Steven W. Schmidt, Professor of Adult Education East Carolina University COVID-19 has pushed education at all levels over the tipping point for online education. This book provides an innovative framework and strategies that bring together user experience, human factors, and design thinking to create a model that wraps around the online learner. Conceicao and Howles draw on their experiences as both scholars and practitioners to create a holistic way to think about learning. Both newcomers and experienced online instructors and designers will find creative solutions and strategies to make online teaching more engaging, personalized, and meaningful. The authors share, in this book, a map to the future of online teaching and learning. --Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Professor of Adult, Higher, and Community Education Educational Studies Ball State University Conceicao and Howles' book digs deep into the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social dimensions of learning and explains what it truly means to be learner-centered. Their integrated framework brings a fresh approach to online instruction. The text delivers the right mix of research and practical strategies to empower both new and experienced instructors and course designers to craft the best possible online learning experiences for students. --Penny Ralston-Berg, Senior Instructional Designer Penn State World Campus

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Simone C. O. Conceição is a professor and chair in the Department of Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her doctorate in adult and distance education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her master's in adult and continuing education leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has served on the editorial board of six journals and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals; written more than 20 book chapters; and authored five books on the topics of online education, adult learning, online student motivation and support, and faculty workload when teaching online. Les L. Howles has over 30 years professional experience in distance educa­tion, eLearning, media production, and instructional design. He has held multiple positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison including direc­tor of Distance Education Professional Development, team leader for the Learning Solutions group and senior eLearning consultant. Throughout his career, Howles has developed and taught online courses, designed educational software, and led groups of professionals in creating innovative learning solu­tions for education and training. He has worked in multiple industries includ­ing higher education, corporate training, government, health care, K–12 and is an independent learning design strategist for Howles Associates. He serves on the editorial board of eLearn Magazine and has authored and coauthored numerous articles for professional publications. Howles holds undergradu­ate degrees from Saint Edward’s University and the State University of New York. He earned his graduate degree in Educational Technology from the University of Oregon. Howles has been a frequent presenter at regional, national, and international conferences and directed the Annual Distance Teaching & Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

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