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Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance EducationDistance education is the fastest-growing mode of both formal and informal teaching, training, and learning. It is multi-faceted in nature, encompassing e-learning and mobile learning, as well as immersive learning environments. Issues in Distance Education presents recent research results and offers informative and accessible overviews, analyses, and explorations of current topics and concerns and of the technologies employed in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical questions and emerging trends, while also situating these developments within the historical evolution of distance education as a specialized mode of instruction. The series is aimed at a wide group of readers, including…

Using Moodle, 2nd Edition, Second Edition

Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System
Developed by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a sophisticated course management system thats ideal for creating dynamic online learning communitiesand for supplementing face-to-face learning. Used in more than 115 countries and supporting over 60 languages, Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student university.
Title  : Using Moodle, 2nd Edition, Second Edition
by : Jason Cole and Helen Foster
Published by : O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Editor: Isabel Kunkel
Printing History: July 2005: First Edition. November 2007: Second Edition
Length : 284 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52918-5
File : Pdf ( text )
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Open and Distance Learning

Open and Distance Learning: Trends, Policy and Strategy Considerations

The globalization of distance education provides many opportunities for developing countries for the realization of their education system-wide goals. Two main factors have led to an explosion of interest in distance learning: the growing need for continual skills upgrading and retraining; and the technological advances that have made it possible to teach more and more subjects at a distance.
Title : Open and Distance Learning: Trends, Policy and Strategy Considerations
Authors : Alan Tait, Paul Resta, Greville Rumble, Yuri Zaparovanny
Editor : Michael M. Moore
Publisher : UNESCO, 2002
Length : 96pages
File : Pdf ( Text )
Size : 535 KB
 
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Quality in Distance Education Focus on On-Line Learning

 Quality in Distance Education Focus on On-Line Learning
 
Breaking through the myths and misunderstandings surrounding web-based learning, this book focuses on the particular characteristics of on-line education, a distance learning technology that can enhance on-campus courses as well. Drawing from her own experience as director of distance learning and technology at the University and Community College System of Nevada, author Katrina A Meyer examines the need to evaluate web-based learning on its own terms. She presents several examples of measures for quality web-based learning, and argues for the next phase of research in the field to focus on which technology works with which student and which learning objective in which discipline and why. With a synthesis of the…