Curt Bonk

Ha ha ha Nellie. I never got your address this time. Thanks for buying it!

I have just started to send the international ones out but they are $30 per package for mailing + the book and the special issue = a very expensive package.

Hi Leonne...

Great questions. I think if you use 3 or 4 or 5 of the 10, you will have a more successful classroom.

Now as to your question, what if student motivators do not match instructor selections...what an insightful question. No one has asked me this before. I do not have an answer to that. Perhaps it is negotiated. Perhaps it is decided as you go. Perhaps the instructor decides early on cedes control to the students later on. Perhaps you just run it as you like and change it next time. I like that last idea. Stay true to yourself and your preferences and try it. Change it later if not.

curt

Hello Sylvia and Everyone:

Thanks for reading and reflecting upon my little TEC-VARIETY book. As I mention in another post below, this project was long in the making. Too long. But ok. I decided to self-publish this one for many reasons. As you might imagine, there are many pros and cons to it. The main pros are the control over the process, the ability to buy the book cheaply and give it away to others, helping people who cannot afford other books, etc. The main cons are cost and people who might question the quality. We went through many quality control measures for this book--it had several reviewers and editors from Florida State and IU, a copyeditor from Portland, a proofreader from Portland, an indexer from Toronto, a graphic artist (my son who was in DC), a webmaster techie person (in Madison, Wisconsin), a researcher (here in Bloomington), and so on.

I can say that Amazon CreateSpace are some of the most polite and helpful people I have ever worked with. I highly recommend them if you self-publish. I have been told that Lightning Source is also a good option and perhaps has better royalties. https://www.lightningsource.com/. But I did not self-publish the book for royalties. I did it since my last publisher (Jossey-Bass) sent only 2 books to a conference in Manila, the Philippines for a conference of over 1,000 people. Worse, they charged 2-3 times USA prices. No one there could afford it. So I bought them and gave them away to the best questions asked after my keynote. And I promised everyone in the audience that my next book would be free to the world. And so it is.

So I am most delighted that nearly 60,000 people have downloaded the book since it came out a little over a year ago. Scholars at Beijing Normal University in China have recently translated it as a free e-Book in Chinese as well. Anyone can use, share, or download either version from the link below. It is also available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon. See book homepage for details: http://tec-variety.com/

http://tec-variety.com/TEC-VARIETY-Chinese.pdf 

I visited and spoke at Beijing Normal U at the end of June. Great people. I also visited the Open University of China (OUC) when in Beijing. They will make it available for print in Chinese. The OUC has over 3.5 million students. It is the second largest university in the world (the Open U of India being #1). It is my second book in Chinese. My 2009 book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education is available in Chinese. Apparently, it is a best seller in China so I am pleased. I attach a picture with my publisher and translator (in red) below take at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai in mid June.

Here is a piece I wrote 2 years ago that recaps much of the Adding Some TEC-VARIETY book:

     Bonk, C. J. (2013, July). Adding some TEC-VARIETY to online courses.  Education Magazine, Issue 6, 15-20 (found at: itunes.apple.com: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educationist-magazine-app/id593725339?ls=1&mt=8 available for Free at: http://www.publicationshare.com/Education_Mag_6_TEC-VARIETY.pdf). 

By the way, my newest book came out last month with Routledge. It is called "MOOCs and Open Education Around the World."  More on it is here including the free preface I wrote.

http://www.moocsbook.com/ (you can also learn more on this book from my top blog post and see pictures from my China trip right below that: http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/).

China South to North: Some Cool Looks, a Few Books, and a Building Named MOOCs

http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2015/07/china-south-to-north-some-cool-looks.html

Enjoy your reflections. Remember reviews in Amazon are always welcome (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496162722/). And I would love to get your feedback in an email. My email is cjbonk at Indiana.edu.

Best of luck creating more motivating online and blended courses and experiences..

Hi Viviana...you selected three important ones. The relevance and climate chapters are among the most downloaded as is autonomy. The other chapter that is downloaded a lot (perhaps the most) is the one on curiosity. The one on encouragement and feedback is important for those new to online and blended forms of learning.

Entire book: http://tec-variety.com/

By Chapter: http://tec-variety.com/freestuff.php 

Thanks for your reflection. This book was initially brainstormed back in 2000. I started collecting articles in 2007 and talking about it around 2005. It took 3 years of writing. Ug.

If you want to read a little story about this book, see:

Bonk, C. J. (2013, January 9). Adding Some TEC-VARIETY to Online Teaching and Learning, Cengage Learning Blog (http://blog.cengage.com/). Available: http://blog.cengage.com/?top_blog=adding-some-tec-variety-to-online-teaching-and-learning

No Cindy, I do not think it has that level of specificity. But perhaps your framework does. :-)