e-books in Distance Learning category
Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Educationby E.J. Burge, C.C.l Gibson, T. Gibson - AU Press , 2011
Flexibility has become a watchword in education, but its implementation is not straightforward. This book sheds light on the assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that hinder efforts towards flexibility.
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Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management Systemby Jason Cole, Helen Foster - O'Reilly Media , 2007
Moodle is an open source Course Management System that universities, colleges, K=12 schools, businesses, and even individual instructors use to add web technology to their courses. This book is for people who want to teach a course using Moodle.
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Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisationsby Leigh Blackall - Wikibooks , 2010
This user guide is for educational organizations interested in developing open education practices using popular social media. It is based on an analysis, where a small group of teachers used social media to develop open education practices.
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E-learning Experiences and Futureby Safeeullah Soomro - InTech , 2010
The book covers topics such as e-learning, e-Government, Data mining in e-learning based systems, LMS systems, security in elearning based systems, surveys regarding teachers to use e-learning systems, analysis of intelligent agents, etc.
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Emerging Technologies in Distance Educationby George Veletsianos - AU Press , 2010
A one-stop knowledge resource, this book showcases the international work of research scholars and innovative distance education practitioners, who use emerging interactive technologies for teaching and learning at a distance.
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Accessible Elements: Teaching Science Online and at a Distanceby Dietmar Kennepohl, Lawton Shaw - AU Press , 2010
This book informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative aspects of online and distance teaching, and the relevant theory.
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Web-Teaching, 2nd Editionby David Brooks, Diane Nolan, Susan Gallagher - Springer , 2000
This book delves into a review of current research, active learning strategies, Web courseware, metacognition, strategies for Web discussions, promoting student self-regulation, building interactive Web pages, HTML coding, managing Web sites, etc.
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Opening Up Educationby J. S. Brown, T. Iiyoshi, M. S. V. Kumar - The MIT Press , 2008
This is a comprehensive collection of writings on the open education movement. It paints a picture of numerous experiments started upon in an arena that is still in its infancy but which offers many possibilities for transformation of education.
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The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, 2nd Editionby Terry Anderson - AU Press , 2008
A collection of essays by practitioners active in the complex field of distance education. The early 21st century has produced a fifth generation, based on autonomous agents and database-assisted learning, that has been referred to as Web 2.0.
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