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In general, teaching languages can prove difficult to most without suitable teaching materials and instructors. Fortunately, e-learning courses make student learning of both language and culture easier through information communication technologies. Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction offers students, instructors, and researchers an authoritative reference to the current progress of language and cultural e-learning. A high quality collection for libraries...

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...

Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond: Investigations and Applications provides a variety of essential case studies which explore the benefits and pedagogical successes of distance learning, blended learning, collaborative learning environments, computer-supported group-based learning, and professional learning communities. This casebook is an essential resource for educators, instructional designers, trainers, administrators, and researchers working in the areas of online learning and...

Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching This important new resource shows how a strong sense of online presence contributes to greater student satisfaction and retention. The authors explore the psychological and social aspects of online presence from both the instructor and student perspective and provide an instructional design framework for developing effective online learning. Based on solid research and extensive experience, the book is filled with suggested methods, illustrat...

A discussion of the increased accessibility to the Internet and how this has lead to a variety of resources being used for learning. Case studies and examples show the benefits of using the Internet as part of resource-based learning.

This book is designed to strengthen understanding of the critical information in the framework for technology application competencies for K-12 teachers.

Moving debates about ICT and higher education beyond a simple focus on e-learning, this book takes into consideration the provision of post-secondary education as a whole.Discussing what is meant by e-business, why e-business approaches are relevant to universities and colleges and the key issues this raises for post-secondary education, this book:examines emerging technologies and provides examples of what an e-institution for education might look like explores what can be learnt from e-busines...

Action research has become one of the preferred research and educational development techniques - an approach through which a group of participants engage in self-reflection to improve practice. This text introduces action research as a method of developing e-learning modules and courses. It is divided into four main blocks, covering the organizational context, the pedagogic model, the educational setting and the evaluation process. The authors write in an accessible style which caters for those...

This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples, this book can be used as a handy reference, a professional guide...