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Blended Learningby Kaye Thorne
Kogan Page 2003; US$ 16.35'Blended learning' is a workable solution that allows trainers and staff developers to integrate online learning within a broader range of more traditional learning techniques. Demonstrating how old and new methods of improving staff performance and learning can work together to give better results, this work aims to provide an ideal guidebook to creating a new style of training. It shows how the concept of blended learning can be applied most effectively as it helps readers make the first ste more...
Building Online Learning Communitiesby Rena M. Palloff; Keith Pratt
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 40.00Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to successfully achieve learning outcomes. This is the second edition of the groundbreaking book by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt and has been completely updated and expanded to include the most current information on effective online course development and delivery. A practical, hands-on guide, this resource is filled with illustrative case studies, vignettes, and examples from a wide variety of successful online courses. The authors offer proven strategies for handling challenges that include: Engaging students in the formation of an online learning... more...
Empowering Online Learningby Curtis J. Bonk; Ke Zhang
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 40.00This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples, this book can be used as a handy reference, a professional guidebook, or a course text. The authors intend for it to help online instructors and instructional designers as well as those contemplating such positions design, develop, and deliver learner-centered online instruction. Empowering Online Learning has... more...
Basic Education at a Distanceby Chris Yates; Jo Bradley
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 61.95This book assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and in a variety of forms. This is the first major overview of this topic for twenty years. more...
Rethinking University Teachingby Diana Laurillard
RoutledgeFalmer 1993; US$ 47.50An invaluable aid in increasing teachers' understanding of the new technological media, showing how it can improve student learning and teaching efficiency. more...
Professional Experience and the Investigative Imaginationby Richard Winter; Paula Sobiechowska; Alyson Buck
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 55.95This book explains how creative writing can be used successfully in the context of professional education. It argues that there is a role for this imaginative style in an area that has traditionally favoured a more distanced approach. more...
Convergence of Distance and Conventional Educationby Alan Tait; Roger Mills
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 53.95This book focuses on the convergence of open and distance learning approaches with conventional education, driven to a considerable extent by a range of technologies which support learning and which are being adopted in all sectors. more...
Using Learning Technologiesby Elizabeth J. Burge; Margaret Haughey
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 61.95This edited collection focuses on the issues, practices and experience of using new technology for learning through distance education. more...
Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learningby G. Dhanarajan; Keith Harry
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 74.95This book summarises the current status of both open and dual mode institutions and reviews developments that have taken place over the last twenty years. more...
Partnership in the Learning Marketspaceby Ann Hill Duin; Linda L. Baer; Doreen Starke-Meyerring
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 30.00Organizations around the world are forming innovative partnerships to offer virtual learning opportunities to global audiences. This book focuses on the crucial questions higher education leaders are asking about these "learning marketspace" partnerships: What do they look like? How will they influence educational delivery systems? When should an institution initiate such a partnership effort? What type of leader is needed for learning marketspace partnerships? What makes such partnerships successful? Partnering in the Learning Marketspace describes how leaders in higher education, government, community, and business can form productive partnerships to leverage the best content and provide a gateway to that content for learners around the... more...