eLearning Theories & Designs

About the Book

“eLearning Theories & Designs” is a tailored book for new learners and practitioners in the field of blended education. The book presents a holistic view of how to implement learning theories while you design your learning. It allows the reader to swing between different theories while put into practice, especially for the new learners in instructional design who can gather from the practices and case studies valuable information on how to approach their designs. it also explains how communities of practice can have an impact on people’s learning and how to transform such communities into schools for the enhancement of after school activities. Therefore, teachers can also benefit from the book as many parts of it are considering course designs and techniques on how to implement good practices in blended learning environments including feedback, engagement, and motivation. The Chapters of the book go from simple theories and approaches put into practice for simple course designs, then they expand into expertise techniques like needs assessment, writing LPOs, and learning modules to end up with program design and evaluation.

About the Author

Awatef Bouledroua is an instructional designer holding a Masters’ Degree in Curriculum and online Instruction from HBMSU, Dubai, and working on strengthening her skills by practice, she believes that changing teaching and learning methods by integrating constructivist applications along with technology will create new environments and extraordinary learning opportunities for all types of learners who are the future of our societies. Focused on the improvement of blended learning in UAE relying on a high use of several theories to strengthen her designs, she could develop many new learning perspectives to see herself creating a new language learning design and model for blended learning environments for schools in UAE.