This document discusses strategies for engaging online learners through community building. It proposes creating worldwide collaborative groups using constructivist teaching methods suited for distance education, based on theories from Piaget, Dewey, Downes, and Siemens. Anchored instruction is also presented as a researched model that could give credibility to online formats. The goal is to design the best practices for engaging learners from all over the world through online education.

1. Online Learner Engagement #3 Henry Briggs Walden University Foundations of Distance Education EDUC ??????? Dr. Keith Pratt 7/09/09

2. Online Learner Engagement

3. With Blueprints Building A Community Of Learners

4. Online Learner Engagement Questions To Be Analyzed and Answered

5. Community of Inquiry Blue Print for learner engagement

6. Build world wide groups, communities through collaborative work How?

7. Why? Researched based Constructivist method of teaching and leaning suited to online format of Distance Education

8. Electronic Tools

10. Theories of Learning Constructivist Jean Piaget John Dewey

11. Theories of Learning Connectivist Stephen Downes George Siemens

12. The Human Tool

13. Anchored Instruction is another researched based model of learning suitable to the online format.

14. Both instructional strategies will give credibility to the online format.

15. e-books

16. Working Together To Lift The World To New Heights

17. Huli Wigmen of Papua, New Guinea using laptop computers. Learner Engagement via Online Education is available to individuals all over the world

19. We must Design The Best Strategies For The Best Practices

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