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How to Be a Successful Online Student
By: Gilbert, Sara Dulaney
Published by: McGraw-Hill
According to the National Center for Education Statistics more than 85% of public universities offer non-residential “distance learning” courses, degrees, or career credentials. New virtual training institutes pop up every day with convenient online career certification options in business, computers, e-commerce, financial services, and health services. Most books on distance learning merely list accredited colleges and universities offering degrees and certifications. How to Be a Successful Online Student provides the nuts and bolts of how distance learning really works and shows readers how to fully exploit online learning tools, opportunities, and resources, including:.:.; Expert advice on which subjects are. perfect for online study.; The essential tools needed including. hardware and software.; Advice on how to become a cracker-jack cyber student with tips on setting up an independent study schedule and sticking with it.; How to combine online learning with. traditional classes.
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Price: $16.95
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500 Tips for Open and Online Learning
By: Race, Phil
Published by: RoutledgeFalmer
This guide provides user friendly advice and support for those currently involved with open learning and those considering it for the first time.
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Price: $42.95
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Adult Learning in the Digital Age
By: Furlong, John
Published by: RoutledgeFalmer
Sheds light on the ways in which adults in the 21st century interact with technology in different learning environments. This book invites debate on: why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change, and the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education. It also tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society.
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Price: $52.95
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Army Distance Learning
By: Shanley, Michael; D. Winkler, John; A. Leonard, Henry
Published by: RAND Corporation
This report examines ways in which distance learning can help the US Army more quickly alleviate active component manpower shortages in understrength military occupations. It addresses the costs and benefits of these potential changes as well as potential problems.
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Price: $9.95
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Army Distance Learning and Personnel Readiness
By: Winkler, John D.; Leonard, Henry A.; Shanley, Michael G.
Published by: RAND Corporation
Distance learning techniques can improve the efficiency of the army's processes for educating its officers and NCOs. This report summarizes the results of a project carried out by RAND Arroyo Center that studied ways in which DL technologies could be employed to enhance Army personnel readiness.
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Price: $9.95
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Assessing the Online Learner
By: Palloff, Rena M.; Pratt, Keith
Published by: Jossey-Bass
Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, experts in the field of online teaching and learning, this hands-on resource helps higher education professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment. It offers guidance for designing and implementing creative assessment practices tied directly to course activities to measure student learning. The book is filled with illustrative case studies, authentic assessments based in real-life application of concepts, and collaborative activities that assess the quality of student learning rather than relying on the traditional methods of measuring the amount of information retained.
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Price: $28.00
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Basic Education at a Distance
By: Yates, Chris; Bradley, Jo
Published by: RoutledgeFalmer
This 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.
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Price: $58.95
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Blended Learning and Online Tutoring
By: Macdonald, Janet
Published by: Gower
This book adopts a pragmatic and commonsense approach to blended learning by situating the use of online media within a well-grounded teaching and learning strategy. It provides practical ideas for the successful implementation of blended strategies, including good practice in both asynchronous and synchronous tutoring, appropriate assessment design for developing successful blended learners, and innovative approaches to professional development for distance tutors. It is illustrated with a wide variety of examples and comments from students and practitioners in both distance and campus based environments in thirteen different countries. The second edition considers the potential of Web 2.0 technologies and activity based learning, and provides new exemplars of learning activity design.
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Price: $49.95
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Blended Learning: How to Integrate Online and Traditional Learning
By: Thorne, Kaye
Published by: Kogan Page
'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 steps into developing a blended training programme.
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Price: $16.35
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Building Online Learning Communities
By: Palloff, Rena M.; Pratt, Keith
Published by: Jossey-Bass
Building 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 community.; Establishing a sense of presence online.; Maximizing participation.; Developing effective courses that include collaboration and reflection.; Assessing student performance. Written for faculty in any distance learning environment, this revised edition is based on the authorsâ?? many years of work in faculty development for online teaching as well as their extensive personal experience as faculty in online distance education. Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt share insights designed to guide readers through the steps of online course design and delivery.
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Price: $40.00
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