Open learning, distance education

Essentials for Blended Learning provides a practical, streamlined approach for creating effective learning experiences by blending online activities and the best of face-to-face teaching.

Reconceptualizing Libraries brings together cases and models developed by experts in the information and learning sciences to identify the potential for libraries to adapt and transform in the wake of new technologies for connected learning and discovery.

The Routledge Handbook of Positive Communication forms a comprehensive reference point for cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the central role of communication in the construction of hedonic and eudemonic happiness,or subjective and psychological well-being.

Introduction to Problem-based Learning teaches students how to work with the problem-based learning method, which requires mainly self-directed learning.

Since the publication of the first edition of Computers as Cognitive Tools in 1993, rapid changes have taken place in the uses of technology for educational purposes and in the theories underlying such uses.

Although emerging technologies are becoming popularised for teaching, learning and research, the relationship between their use and transformative effects on higher education remain largely unexplored.

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

Thinking Collaboratively is a theoretical and practical guide to thinking and learning in deep and meaningful ways within purposeful communities of inquiry.

Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning provides intentional approaches to the integration of artificial intelligence tools into middle and high school classrooms, specifically to foster equity and social-emotional wellbeing.

CALL Research Perspectives creates a foundation for the study and practice of computer-assisted language learning and provides an overview of ways to conceptualize and to conduct research in CALL.

Designing Effective Digital Badges is a hands-on guide to the principles, implementation, and assessment of digital badging systems.

The working model for "e;helping the learner to learn"e; presented in this book is relevant to any teaching context, but the focus here is on teaching in secondary and college science classrooms.

Learning Analytics Goes to School presents a framework for engaging in education research and improving education practice through the use of newly available data sources and analytical approaches.

This practical guide is designed to support international foundation year (IFY) teachers, leaders, and managers through all of the key academic aspects of IFY provision from an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) perspective.

Classroom teachers are increasingly expected to teach online creating content area courses from scratch with little support or training.

This book is designed to introduce professors and administrators in higher education to the philosophical, theoretical, and research support for using a constructivist perspective on learning to guide the reconstruction of undergraduate education.

The Global Collaboration initiatives related in this book are examples of how educators have experimented with different mechanisms to provide science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programmes through information and communication technologies.

Policy for Open and Distance Learning considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level of education.

With the rapid proliferation of distance education and e-learning courses, the need is growing for a comprehensive, professional approach to evaluating their effectiveness.

First published in 2005.

Designing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Environments provides a theoretically-based yet practical guide to systematic design processes for learning environments that provide automatic customization of learning and instruction.

As esports is one of the new and rapidly growing sports programs at the collegiate level, today's campus leaders are increasingly asked to navigate the complexity of esports.

Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems.

This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning.

This practical, how-to guide makes it easy for teachers to incorporate the latest technology in their classes.

This book responds to an ever-increasing call from educators, policy makers, journalists, parents and the public at large for analysis that cuts through the hype surrounding the information revolution to address key issues associated with new media in higher education and learning.

Online Gaming and Playful Organization explores the cultural impact of gaming on organizations.

Distance education, for long the Cinderella of the educational spectrum, had emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s as a valued component of many national educational systems in both developed and developing countries.

This book explores the evolution of Integrated approach to Technology in Education (ITE), an initiative of Tata Trusts in India, and the many innovative ways in which it has helped enrich the learning process and fostered new skills for young people, especially those living in challenging environments.

This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies.

Culture, Learning, and Technology: Research and Practice provides readers with an overview of the research on culture, learning, and technology (CLT) and introduces the concept of culture-related theoretical frameworks.

Integrated information systems are increasingly used in schools, and the advent of the technology-rich classroom requires a new degree of ongoing classroom assessment.

Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and Gamification: An ICT Education discusses the challenges associated with assessing student progress given the explosion of e-learning environments, such as MOOCs and online courses that incorporate activities such as design and modeling.

The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference has become an internationally-recognized forum for the exchange of research findings related to learning in the context of collaborative activity and the exploration of how such learning might be augmented through technology.

Is the emerging digital multimedia culture of today transforming the textbook or forever displacing it?

There are two distinct professional communities that share an interest in using innovative approaches and emerging technologies to design and implement effective support for learning.

Learning for the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a richly informed argument for curricular change to educate people towards achievement and success as intelligent machine systems proliferate.

Written as a textbook for courses on teaching at the college and seminary level, Called to Teach actually reaches out to a much wider audience.

Blended Learning Solutions in Higher Education explores the origins, empirical foundations, and implementation of blended learning in colleges and universities.

This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech's development and diffusion.

The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in second language teaching.

Generation Z students are avid gamers and are always on social media.

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

What does it mean to be a productive professor in higher education?