Open learning, distance education

International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series that contributes to the body of inclusive educational policies and practices focused on: empowering society's most vulnerable groups; raising the ethical consciousness of those in positions of authority; and encouraging all to take up the mantle of global equity in educational opportunity, economic freedom and human dignity.

The book provides new conceptual frameworks to understand good practice in the field of mobile learning.

The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching was edited under the assumption that a perfect online course can be delivered following different instructional methods and models for design and for instruction, and by implementing different teaching or instructional strategies.

As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning.

This book makes a contribution to the field of distance education by presenting key perspectives on the state of the field and examining and discussing specific current trends and issues faced by the distance learning community.

The purpose of this book is to document sample lessons based on our What Works in Distance Learning: Guidelines (O'Neil, 2005).

This edited collection, the first of its kind, marries the two fastest-growing movements in higher education: service-learning and eLearning.

This work discusses issues relating to distance education and distributed learning.

This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses.

As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning.

The hybridity and dynamism of today's interconnected, interdependent and culturally diverse world poses challenges and opportunities for learning and communication.

Distance Education has become a major topic of interest in the field of educational communications and technology.

This book aims to bring together the work of a number of online learning specialists from around the world, to offer the reader a global view of current and recent research and practice in electronic learning from a variety of disciplines and contexts.

An Administrator's Guide to Online Education is an essential resource for the higher education administrator.

This book documents progress to date in what works in distance learning (DL).

Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource.

Distance education is defined as institution-based formal education where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors.

The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching was edited under the assumption that a perfect online course can be delivered following different instructional methods and models for design and for instruction, and by implementing different teaching or instructional strategies.

The hybridity and dynamism of today's interconnected, interdependent and culturally diverse world poses challenges and opportunities for learning and communication.

Over the last decade, the field of distance education (and e-learning) has substantially strengthened and assumed a more international scope.

Fluency in Distance Learning offers a practical, hands-on, workshop style approach to creating an effective distance learning course.

This book will inspire academics, teachers and trainers to use film and television in their classrooms and to shows them how it might be done.

Effective online teaching is a well-documented topic, however, this book is different because it specifically addresses the effective and affective pedagogy and learning.

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.

The purpose of this book is to serve as a guide for designing, developing, and teaching learner centered online courses and/or modules of instruction.

The e-learning research literature is characterized by studies that investigate the practice of teaching and learning online (pedagogy) and those that investigate the planning and administrative functions associated with e-learning delivery (management).

The book identifies a set of validated competencies and performance statements, withsupporting explanation and data to inform and equip online learners with the critical attitudes, knowledge and skills for successful learning in online and/or blended learning settings.

Real-Life Distance Education: Case Studies in Practice documents and discusses the experiences of those who have implemented distance learning as a solution to "e;real-life"e; problems and provides guidance to assist readers in their understanding and analysis of distance learning.

The purpose of this book is to serve as a guide for designing, developing, and teaching learner centered online courses and/or modules of instruction.

This edited collection, the first of its kind, marries the two fastest-growing movements in higher education: service-learning and eLearning.

This volume informs our understanding of how educational settings can respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

The world of middle level education is rapidly evolving.

The fourth edition of this book updates background information about the definition and supporting theories and updates the glossary with new terms related to distance education and instructional technology.

The 21st century has brought about changes in every aspect of life through ubiquitous technology and Internet-based social media.

Science is unique among the disciplines since it is inherently hands-on.

The hybridity and dynamism of today's interconnected, interdependent and culturally diverse world poses challenges and opportunities for learning and communication.

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.

Science is unique among the disciplines since it is inherently hands-on.

Service-learning is an exciting pedagogy and field of study, offering insight into how academic study and community engagement blend to create social change.

Over the last decade, the field of distance education (and e-learning) has substantially strengthened and assumed a more international scope.

This book will inspire academics, teachers and trainers to use film and television in their classrooms and to shows them how it might be done.

Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities.

Overall we come away from this project with a renewed sense of the complexity of evaluating the implementation and impact of technology in teacher education.

Fluency in Distance Learning offers a practical, hands-on, workshop style approach to creating an effective distance learning course.

Service-learning is an exciting pedagogy and field of study, offering insight into how academic study and community engagement blend to create social change.

Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities.

Overall we come away from this project with a renewed sense of the complexity of evaluating the implementation and impact of technology in teacher education.

In March of 2020, our daily lives were upended by the COVID pandemic and subsequent school closures.

Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or in-service teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems.

The purpose of this book is to document sample lessons based on our What Works in Distance Learning: Guidelines (O'Neil, 2005).