Open learning, distance education

This book explores the measurement of learning effectiveness and the optimization of knowledge retention by modeling the learning process and building the mathematical foundation of multi-space learning theory.

This edited collection focuses on digital empowerment for displaced people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, exploring the intersections of digital technologies, settlement, education, and global migration.

Limited resources and other factors pose major challenges for engineering, technology, and science educators' ability to provide adequate laboratory experience for students.

Although there is broad agreement that preparing global citizens for the digital age is a core responsibility of educators and schools, there is debate and uncertainty about how best to prepare students for this future.

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

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

Creating Positive Personal Images for Professional Success is a book filled with guidelines for success in both private and public life.

If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live.

Pedagogy and andragogy are often treated as separate fields, despite their similarities and shared goal of stimulating learning in individuals to the fullest degree possible.

Recent technological innovation has altered the way educators approach teaching and learning.

The open approach has been widely used in the development of mobile applications, mobile operating systems for mobile devices, and mobile services for supporting mobile learning.

Mobile learning, or m-learning, can take place in any environment using technologies that fit in the palm of the hand or can be easily carried from one place to another.

This volume draws together all the articles published by the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning in its first year of publication (2009).

The idea of combining face-to-face learning with some form on online learning made sense a decade ago as it allowed much more flexibility in delivering instruction to diverse groups of learners.

Immeasurable advances in our culture have led to a more knowledge-based society in recent years.

Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.

Higher education is facing a renaissance in terms of its approaches to teaching and learning and the use of physical and virtual spaces.

Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning, a desktop resource, focuses specifically on distance education for researchers and practitioners.

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

Educational communities today are rapidly increasing their interest in Web 2.

Homeschooling isn't about teaching--it's about learning together with your child.

Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction addresses administrators' and instructors' questions for developing online writing programs and courses.

Leading proponents and critics articulate and debate the rapid rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as an educational and open access innovation