[Open-education] [OER] Open Textbook: 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online

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Dear Friends,
Greetings from India.  It is my honour and pleasure to express my heartiest Happy New Year Greetings.  Hope, the New Year 2015 will bring all properity, peace and happiness to your goodself as well as to all your family members.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely yours,
Dr.N.BALASUBRAMANIAN,
Prof. 
Dept. of Education,
Bharathiar University,
Coimbatore 641 046,
Tamil Nadu,
India.

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On Wed, 31/12/14, Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org> wrote:

 Subject: [OER] Open Textbook: 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining	Learners Online
 To: "Educause Openness Constituent Group" <OPENNESS at listserv.educause.edu>, "OER Advocacy Coalition" <oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com>, "OER-DISCUSS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" <OER-DISCUSS at jiscmail.ac.uk>, "OER Forum" <oer-forum at lists.esn.org.za>, "Open Educaton @ OKFN" <open-education at lists.okfn.org>, "OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" <OPENEDSIG at jiscmail.ac.uk>
 Cc: "Bonk, Curtis Jay" <cjbonk at indiana.edu>, "Elaine Khoo (ekhoo at waikato.ac.nz)" <ekhoo at waikato.ac.nz>, "Seth White" <sethwhite123 at gmail.com>
 Date: Wednesday, 31 December, 2014, 1:26 AM

 A
 late Holiday gift from friends Curt Bonk &
 Elaine Khoo: http://tec-variety.com  (BY
 NC SA)

 Happy New Year all!

 Cable

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 From Curt:

 Greetings!   

 When
 my book, "The
  World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing
 Education" first appeared in the summer of
 2009, people asked me two insightful
 questions: #1. If this truly is an open educational
 world, then why isn't the book free?, and #2.
 What
  can educators actually do in this more free and open world?
 A couple years later, when Massive Open Online Courses or
 "MOOCs" first arrived on the scene, people around
 the globe were asking me a third question;
 namely, #3. how to increase MOOC retention
  rates. They read MOOC related articles in the New York
 Times, the Guardian, BBC News, CNN International, the Korea
 Times, and all of the other hype about the global
 transformation of higher education. But they also knew that
 there were a host of problems surrounding
  MOOCs. 
 It
 took more than five years, but I finally have responded to
 all three questions. Where? How? And when, you ask? Well, my
 latest book, "Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+
 Activities
  for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online,"
 provides a framework of 10 proven psychological principles
 of motivation (see visual below) and more than 100
 activities for addressing the vast learner motivation and
 retention problems we all witness
  today. In responding to all those who joked with me that my
 next book should be free, this book, written with Elaine
 Khoo from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, not only
 is FREE as an e-book (all
  367 pages), but you can download each chapter separately
  for free as well. Since the book release in May, over
 25,000 people have already
 downloaded the entire book and thousands more have selected
 individual chapters. Chapters on curiosity, tone/climate,
  and relevance are among the most popular
 ones. 
 You too can download it all right
 now and share it with others. In addition, a Chinese
 version of the free
  e-book will be available soon. This free and open access
 book is my way of expressing my thanks for the opportunity
 to live in this vast and exciting open educational
 world. 

 More
 specifics about the book can be found in a recent blog
  post of mine as well as at the book
  homepage. 
 This
 book is an experiment for me both in self-publishing as well
 as pushing the edges of the open educational world. I hope
 you enjoy my new free book and share it with others.
  Oh, by the way, my son Alex designed
  the cover. I hope you like it.

 Best
 wishes.

 Curt Bonk,
 Ph.D. (in educational
 psychology), CPA
 Professor,
 Instructional Systems Technology Department; Adjunct, School
 of Informatics
 Indiana
 University
 President,
 CourseShare, LLC 

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