Open learning, distance education

Critical Mobile Pedagogy is an exploration of mobile technologies for designing and delivering equitable and empowering education around the globe.

Companion volume to the award-winning best seller Instructional Design Theories and Models, this book serves as a concrete introduction to instructional design for curriculum developers, teachers and teacher trainers, and students.

This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching, research, and development in challenging circumstances.

Graphic displays such as charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps play in important role today in the design and presentation of instructional materials education.

The new field of learning design has the potential to revolutionize not only technology in education, but the whole field of teaching and learning through the application of design thinking to education.

The fields of computer-assisted instruction and intelligent tutoring systems have had few vehicles for sharing ideas or programs.

The surprising history of education technology and its political, financial, and social impact on higher education and our worldFrom AI tutors who ensure individualized instruction but cannot do math to free online courses from elite universities that were supposed to democratize higher education, claims that technological innovations will transform education often fall short.

Featuring bright and vibrant illustrations, The Beginner's Bible(R) offers the foundational building blocks of faith for young children while featuring easy to read, short, and simple bible stories of favorite figures.

Approximately 45% of young black children in the United States (under the age of six) live in poverty.

Engaging College and University Students outlines creative and effective course organization and teaching-learning strategies for higher education courses.

In the first paragraphs of this volume, the author identifies an "e;authenticity paradox"e;: that the purported real-worldedness of a learning environment, technique, or task is so rhetorically potent that educators frequently call attention to it in pedagogical conversations to legitimize their undertakings, while at the same time, terms such as "e;real-world"e; and "e;authentic"e; do not require (and even resist) precise delineation.

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

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This book provides an introduction into social science pedagogy in India.

The Handbook of Distance Education, 4th Edition is a comprehensive compendium of research in the field of distance education.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational models of distance and online learning from an international perspective and from the point of view of economic planning, costing and management decision-making.

This volume centers on the words and experiences of teachers and students who used QUILL -- a software package developed by the authors to aid in writing instruction.

Learning Analytics in Higher Education provides a foundational understanding of how learning analytics is defined, what barriers and opportunities exist, and how it can be used to improve practice, including strategic planning, course development, teaching pedagogy, and student assessment.

The new edition of Digital Learning: The Key Concepts is the perfect reference for anyone seeking to navigate the myriad of named concepts, approaches, issues and technologies associated with digital learning.

Often, families will choose homeschooling because they have children who cannot cope or thrive within traditional educational environments due to special physical or emotional needs.

This cross-cultural edited volume presents a rich tapestry of experiences, challenges, and innovations, focusing on assessment, course and curriculum design, approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in the Global South.

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community?

Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning 'on the run'.

Learning in groups, rather than in formal lectures or presentations, allows students to have greater scope to negotiate meaning and express themselves and their own ideas.

The use of online learning environments is now widespread, and there is a wealth of literature providing practical advice on how to teach online, develop courses and ensure effective pedagogical practice.

Designing Intersectional Online Education provides expansive yet accessible examples and discussion about the intentional creation of online teaching and learning experiences that critically center identity, social systems, and other important ideas in design and pedagogy.

Mobile Learning in Schools explores the potential for using mobile devices in diverse school and college settings around the globe.

Originally published as a special issue of the Middle School Journal, this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school.

Distance learning is becoming an increasingly popular way of studying, and most universities now provide courses using these methods.

What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works?

User Design offers a fresh perspective on how front-line learners (users) can participate in the design of learning environments.

The use of virtual world platforms is still in its infancy and many educators are wondering how best to use such platforms as a complement to their teaching and facilitation strategies.

This volume presents research findings on the use of technology to support learning and reasoning in collaborative contexts.

Foundations of Educational Technology offers a fresh, interdisciplinary, problem-centered approach to educational technology, learning design, and instructional systems development.

Internationally, there is a growing body of research about learners' responses to, and uses of, emerging technologies.

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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 brings together the research work conducted by renowned academics and practitioners on critical and immensely important issues of virtual learning.

In 1961 the Centre for the Study of the History of Education at Ghent University, Belgium published the first issue of the multilingual journal Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education.

Written by Rena M.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth in online education across the world.

This book is unique in that its stress is not on the mastery of a programming language, but on the importance and value of interactive problem solving.

Everything you need to know about adding e-resources to your library's servicesHandbook of Electronic and Digital Acquisitions steers librarians through the process of evaluating, choosing, and managing electronic resources as they expand their collection development policies to include electronic databases.

Quality assurance (QA) in open and distance learning (ODL) can be a contentious issue.

An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the fieldWe face constant choices about how we read.