Open learning, distance education

This practical guide is essential for anyone new to or intimidated by online instruction.

Online Education is a comprehensive exploration of blended and fully online teaching platforms, addressing history, theory, research, planning, and practice.

E-learning is at an exciting point in its development; its potential in terms of research is great and its impact on institutional practices is fully recognised.

Computers are not often associated with passion or culture, yet the use of information technology still has a surprisingly emotional effect on many people, including teachers and learners.

Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change: An Introduction for Teachers, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to using computers in educational settings.

This book articulates the complexities inherent in higher education's multi-faceted response to the forces of mediatization-or how institutions change when their social communication gets mediated by technology-and introduces a novel perspective to comprehend them in a systematic way.

Inclusive Technology Enhanced Learning draws together a remarkable breadth of research findings from across the field, providing useful data on the power of technology to solve cognitive, physical, emotional or geographic challenges in education.

Student engagement with digital learning resources and online social networking are strong forces in education today.

The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.

This volume draws together experiences in the application of technology to distributed learning.

This edited volume examines the implications of COVID-19 on distance and online learning, discussing how the move to online teaching and learning modes proved to be a source of immense institutional, organizational, and educational challenges.

Teacher collaboration helps to facilitate meaningful and effective learning and enables sustainable development of schools.

In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out.

Laughter is the best medicine, and the Women of Faith(R) speakers definitely know how to lose themselves in laughter.

In spite of the proliferation of online learning, creating online courses can still evoke a good deal of frustration, negativity, and wariness in those who need to create them.

Distance education, combining the use of correspondence texts, broadcasting and limited opportunities for face-to-face study, has been used in at least a hundred teacher training programmes over the last 25 years.

The process of integrating technology into education often overlooks that technology is a sign; it is not a neutral message conveyor, but rather a material artefact placed into a context inevitably subject to culture.

Robots in Education is an accessible introduction to the use of robotics in formal learning, encompassing pedagogical and psychological theories as well as implementation in curricula.

Challenging Formalization in Education and Beyond addresses the effects of today's attempts to organize knowledge, processes, and performance in education, particularly in its ever-growing digital environments.

Looking for Insight, Transformation, and Learning in Online Talk is a comprehensive guide to analyzing digital interaction in formal and informal online spaces.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Education identifies and confronts key ethical issues generated over years of AI research, development, and deployment in learning contexts.

Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation is the first book in the field to focus on major methodological advances in research on interpersonal regulation of learning and motivation.

If you find traditional lectures and course material ineffective for teaching students how to develop a sensitivity to cultural differences and apply "e;home grown"e; technologies to foreign situations, Business Simulations, Games and Experiential Learning in International Business Education is the guide to help you remedy this predicament!

Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues.

With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy and literacy across the curriculum.

Connected by a computer telecommunications network, ninth-graders from eight high schools scattered thousands of miles across Alaska work together, building a robot submarine to gather samples from the floor of Prince William Sound.

Social media and online social networks are expected to transform academia and the scholarly process.

Scarcely a week goes by without coverage in the UK and international media about the latest MOOC revelation.

Building Better Universities provides a wide-ranging summary and critical review of the increasing number of groundbreaking initiatives undertaken by universities and colleges around the world.

Combining language research with digital, multimodal, and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across an array of contexts.

The INFORMED ADOLESCENCE(TM) middle-school curriculum supports teen resilience through social and emotional skills; sexual health through developmentally tailored reproductive information and consent-focused context for sexual thoughts and feelings; and boundary setting through self-trust, risk mitigation, and practical skills for personal safety.

This book explores the distinctive nature of clinical legal education in a range of global contexts.

As the online world of creative writing teaching, learning, and collaborating grows in popularity and necessity, this book explores the challenges and unique benefits of teaching creative writing online.

More than a decade has passed since the First International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) was held at Northwestern University in 1991.

Evaluative Practice in Learning, Design, and Technology provides learning, design, and technology stakeholders with comprehensive resources intended to support their engagement in evaluative activities.

Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financial -which should be taken into account in the planning and running of large-scale, centralised distance education systems at the higher education level.

Motivation, Learning, and Technology is a fresh, thorough, and practical introduction to motivational research, theories, and applications for learning and instruction.

This volume offers a detailed case study of the internationally acclaimed online programmes in Egyptology at the University of Manchester, UK.

Project Managing E-learning provides an essential framework, based on the globally accepted IPECC model, for planning, designing, delivering, managing and evaluating e-learning projects successfully.

Intelligent tutoring technology is on the verge of a breakthrough into the mainstream of training and education.

In the author's words: "e;This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world.

This timely volume documents the immediate, global impacts of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on teaching and learning in higher education.

Highlighting and illustrating several important and interesting theoretical trends that have emerged in the continuing development of instructional technology, this book's organizational framework is based on the notion of two opposing camps.