Supporting Students for Success in Online and Distance Learning, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of student support both on and off campus.
This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them.
E-learning is at an exciting point in its development; its potential in terms of research is great and its impact on institutional practices is fully recognised.
Utilizing findings from more than 200 interviews with students, staff, and faculty at a US university, this volume explores the immediate and real-life impacts of COVID-19 on individuals to inform higher education policy and practice in times of crisis.
On Fire, Under Fire, or Fired: Superintendents in the Pandemic provides a unique view into the unprecedented challenges and transformative opportunities superintendents faced during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the lessons that can be learned moving forward.
Engaging the Online Learner This updated edition includes an innovative framework the Phases of Engagement that helps learners become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally.
Connected by a computer telecommunications network, ninth-graders from eight high schools scattered thousands of miles across Alaska work together, building a robot submarine to gather samples from the floor of Prince William Sound.
Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of writingUnderstanding writing is essential for your child to write with competence and clarity.
This volume explores the application of computer simulation technology to measurement issues in education -- especially as it pertains to problem based learning.
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV provides a research-based description of the current state of instructional theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education, as well as a clear indication of how different theories and models interrelate.
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.
With the growing interest in undergraduate research as a high-impact practice, and the recognition that college education is increasingly moving online, this book - the first to do so - provides a framework, guidance from pioneering practitioners, and a range of examples across disciplines on how to engage remote students in research.
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.
E-learning is a new, exciting and increasingly popular way of learning for health and social care professionals, both in the pre- and post-qualification stages.
This book provides contemporary insights into learning outcomes arising from the use of learning platforms by pupils, students and teachers in schools.
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.
Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools.
Problem-based learning online is a burgeoning area, crying out for support in all the disciplines, but particularly health, medicine, education and social care that are already advanced users of problem-based learning in higher education.
Intelligent Data Analysis for e-Learning: Enhancing Security and Trustworthiness in Online Learning Systems addresses information security within e-Learning based on trustworthiness assessment and prediction.
Technology-enabled simulations are increasingly used for students in K-12 education and have the potential to improve teaching and learning across domains.
Literacy in the Digital University is an innovative volume bringing together perspectives from two fields of enquiry and practice: 'literacies and learning' and 'learning technologies'.
This volume grew out of a symposium on discourse, tools, and instructional design at Vanderbilt University in 1995 that brought together a small international group to grapple with issues of communicating, symbolizing, modeling, and mathematizing, particularly as these issues relate to learning in the classroom.
Producing Video for Teaching and Learning: Planning and Collaboration provides lecturers, researchers, professors, and technical staff in educational settings with a framework for producing video resources for teaching and learning purposes.
In recent years, the powerful social, cultural and economic changes wrought by digital technology have led many to forecast the end of the university as we know it.
Linn and Hsi show how computers, teachers, and peers can serve as learning partners--helping students build on their ideas and become lifelong science learners.
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers.
Creativity, Technology, and Learning provides a comprehensive introduction to theories and research on creativity in education and, in particular, to the role of digital-learning technologies in enabling creativity across classroom learning environments.
Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe.
Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, students take little notice of it.
In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resisted and accepted over time.
