Open learning, distance education

This book critically examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated digital innovation within higher education using case studies from Africa.

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award - Book by AECT's Culture, Learning, and Technology Division!

Tools such as Blackboard and Google Classroom have seen wide-scale adoption and standardized implementation in colleges and universities.

Computational Thinking in Education explores the relevance of computational thinking in primary and secondary education.

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

Recipient of the 2021 Divergent Book Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research given by the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies ResearchToday's secondary virtual teachers are tasked with designing and implementing effective literacy instructional approaches for adolescent online learners.

The work presented in this book is based on empirical study undertaken as a case study to understand the challenges faced in massively open online course (MOOC) based learning and experimentation to understand the challenges for presenting theoretical and practical courses.

Integrating Computer Science Across the Core is a guide to systematizing computer science and computational thinking practices in your school.

Like the original version of Teaching Computers to Teach, this updated edition presents procedures and principles for designing computer-presented instruction.

How can we ensure we use technology effectively with young children?

While current educational technologies have the potential to fundamentally enhance literacy education, many of these tools remain unknown to or unused by today's practitioners due to a lack of access and support.

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

Mathematical psychology is an interdisciplinary area of research in which methods of mathematics, operations research, and computer science in psychology are used.

Technology-Enhanced Professional Learning addresses the need for continuous workplace learning that derives from the emergence of new, specialized, and constantly changing work practices.

For new and veteran homeschool families alike, this extensive new release from the editors of The Old Schoolhouse TM Magazine serves as a homeschool convention in a book.

Open and distance learning has been used in many ways in the recent past to provide both primary education and adult education.

CSCL 2: Carrying Forward the Conversation is a thorough and up-to-date survey of recent developments in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, one of the fastest growing areas of research in the learning sciences.

Online Education Policy and Practice examines the past, present, and future of networked learning environments and the changing role of faculty within them.

This book critically examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated digital innovation within higher education using case studies from Africa.

A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team School closures in response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching.

This book provides an account, both theoretical and phenomenological, of the education offered by philosophy.

From bullying and social media to friendships and dating, Adored: 365 Devotions for Young Women tackles the toughest topics girls ages 13 and up face, giving you the truth and guidance you need to face each day with confidence and grace.

This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels.

The International Handbook of e-Learning, Volume 2 provides a comprehensive compendium of implementation and practice in all aspects of e-learning, one of the most significant ongoing global developments in the entire field of education.

The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives.

First published in 1980 The Door Stood Open deals with an early demand upon open university policy.

Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on digitization as social transformation and its impact on communication and learning.

The Essentials of Instructional Design, Fifth Edition introduces the fundamental elements of instructional design (ID) to students who are new to ID.

Instructional Design Theories and Models is a thorough yet concise overview of eight of the most comprehensive and best-known attempts to integrate knowledge about effective and appealing instruction.

Originally published in 1994, International Developments in Assuring Quality in Higher Education describes a range of national and international developments which evaluate the quality of education provided by public and private tertiary institutions.

Mobile Learning and Higher Education provides case studies of mobile learning in higher education settings to showcase how devices can transform learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Written by Rena M.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Developments in digital technologies--and in understandings of how best to use them--have altered teaching and learning environments, and stand to do so even more rapidly in the future.

While the international mobility of students is a well-established feature of higher education, the international mobility of institutions and courses on a large scale is a more novel phenomenon.

At a time when more and more of what people learn both in formal courses and in everyday life is mediated by technology, Learning Online provides a much-needed guide to different forms and applications of online learning.

This book deals with large-scale or macro-level instructional design, which is referred to by other authors variously as curriculum development, course design, training system design or instructional systems design.

This volume explores difficulties facing TESOL education's transition to online learning in the Global South and Southeast Asia/Asia Pacific region, highlighting innovations of educators in engaging learners, thereby exploring the key themes of access, engagement, and equity in the field.

Make sure your students get the most from their online learning experiencesEven though nearly every K-12 public school in the United States has broadband Internet access,the Web's vast potential as a teaching and learning tool has still not been realized.

The field of the learning sciences is concerned with educational research from the dual perspectives of human cognition and computing technologies, and the application of this research in three integrated areas: *Design: Design of learning and teaching environments, tools, or media, including innovative curricula, multimedia, artificial intelligence, telecommunications technologies, visualization, modeling, and design theories and activity structures for supporting learning and teaching.

This book examines significant issues in geography teaching and learning from the perspectives of an international network of academic geographers and postgraduate students.

This book seeks to establish an interdisciplinary, applied social scientific model for researchers and students that advocates a cooperative effort between machines and people.

This practical handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses focuses on outcomes-based practice.