Here's an easy-to-understand road map that will allow you to take charge of the e-learning initiative in your organization. Training professionals, team leaders of e-learning initiatives, HR executives, or anyone wishing to understand this fundamental change in the training profession will find this book to be a valuable learning tool. In addition to its practical contents, there are interactive ""Your Turn"" sections and a companion website that allows you to apply concepts learned in the book....
E-Learning wird meist in padagogischen Zusammenhangen beschrieben. Bei einer solchen Sichtweise werden aber viele Bereiche ausgeblendet, die fur ein umfassendes Verstandnis von E-Learning von Bedeutung sind. In dieser Arbeit wird eine neue kommunikationswissenschaftliche Perspektive erarbeitet, die sich an einer systemischen Interpretation orientiert. Auf Basis einer systemtheoretischen Analyse wird ein Modell entwickelt, in dem E-Learning nicht mehr als eine Lehr-Lernmethode, sondern als sozial...
Education and learning opportunities bring about the potential for individual and national advancement. As learners move away from traditional scholarly media and toward technology-based education, students gain an advantage with technology in learning about their world and how to interact with modern society. The Handbook of Research on Learning Outcomes and Opportunities in the Digital Age provides expert research relating to recent technological advancements, technology and learning assessm...
New Science of Learning
The earliest educational software simply transferred print material from the page to the monitor. Since then, the Internet and other digital media have brought students an ever-expanding, low-cost knowledge base and the opportunity to interact with minds around the globe-while running the risk of shortening their attention spans, isolating them from interpersonal contact, and subjecting them to information overload. The New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Educatio...
Identification, Evaluation, and Perceptions of Distance Education Experts (Advances in Mobile and Distance Learning)
by Gulsun Eby and T Volkan Yuzer
Instructional quality can make or break the learning experience, especially in digital environments where the expressional nuances of interpersonal communication are lost. The most effective distance education instructors and experts are those who recognize the educational needs of students and are able to address those needs through creative use of the technological tools available to them. Identification, Evaluation, and Perceptions of Distance Education Experts explores the current and futu...
Computers and Education in the 21st Century
ConieD is the biannual Congress on Computers in Education, organised by the Spanish Association for the Development of Computers in Education (ADIE). The last Congress, held in Puertollano (Ciudad Real), brought together researchers in different areas, ranging from web applications, educational environments, or Human-Computer Interaction to Artificial Intelligence in Education. The common leitmotiv of the major part of the lectures was the World Wide Web. In particular, the focus was on the real...
PowerPoint Magic offers you everything you need to incorporate this flexible and powerful software into your classroom: an introduction to the software s basic functions and capabilities, step-by-step activity descriptions keyed to the NETS S and content area standards, and teaching tips and extension ideas for promoting higher order thinking skills. Also included is a CD with a complete set of modifiable lesson templates and samples."
Online communities continue to evolve as more people take on a virtual presence. This shift in online communities and the diversity of individuals populating the web has allowed for the emergence of virtual communities centred on niche topics of interests ranging from heavy metal music to indigenous and native culture. Educational, Psychological, and Behavioral Considerations in Niche Online Communities examines the presence of online communities centred around niche topics of interest and the...
Enhancing E-Learning with Media-Rich Content and Interactions
by Richard Caladine
Online learning is transcending from the text-rich educational experience of the past to a video- and audio-rich learning transformation. The greater levels of media-rich content and media-rich interaction that are currently prevalent in online leisure experiences will help to increase e-learning's future efficiency and effectiveness. ""Enhancing E-Learning with Media-Rich Content and Interactions"" presents instructional designers, educators, scholars, and researchers with the necessary foundat...
Student Usability in Educational Software and Games (Advances in Game-Based Learning)
Student Usability in Educational Software and Games: Improving Experiences explores new models of interaction and human-computer interaction paradigms as applied to learning environments. It focuses on the usability design and evaluation of learning systems and educational game environments. An excellent resource for experts in these fields, this research volume will help professionals, educators, and researchers improve their understanding of student experiences using learning-gaming environme...
Learning Online: A Guide to Success in the Virtual Classroom
by Maggie McVay Lynch
Adaptive hypermedia listening software enables materials writers to combine and deliver a wide range of digital elements on the same digital computer platform more efficiently. Such a combination and delivery provides a multidimensional, multi-sensory digital environment in which rich, efficient, instant, comprehensible, optimum, and meaningful input and feedback can be presented effectively and efficiently. Moreover, language learners' attention can be drawn to forms and meanings in input. Such...
Exploring Microsoft Office 2019 Introductory, 1/E + Mylab It W/ Pearson Etext
by Mary Anne Poatsy, Keith Mulbery, Lynn Hogan, Jason Davidson, Linda Lau, Rebecca Lawson, Jerri Williams, Amy Rutledge, and Diane Kosharek
Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities
by Francesca Pozzi
Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives provides a focused assessment of the peculiarities of online collaborative learning processes by looking at the strategies, methods, and techniques used to support and enhance debate and exchange among peers. Offering an extensive discussion of the design, management, monitoring, and evaluation of learning processes, this work reviews issues from both a theoretical and practical viewpoin...
Bringing the Internet to School
by Janet Ward Schofield and Ann Locke Davidson
Bringing the Internet to School presents the results of one of the first comprehensive studies of Internet -implementation in K-12 schools. Based on the information gleaned from this groundbreaking study, two experts in the field of high-technology and schools, Janet Ward Schofield and Ann Locke Davidson, examine the myriad issues that arise when the Internet is introduced into the classroom. This important book reveals the positive and negative consequences that Internet use has on classroom eq...
Weblogs are about reading and writing. Literacy is about reading and writing. Blogging equals literacy. How rarely does an aspect of how we live and work plug so perfectly into how we teach and learn? Reading this book will give teachers important clues not only in how to become a blogger and to make their students bloggers, but also how this new avenue of expression is revolutionizing the information environment that we live in.
