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Designing Personalized Learning Experiences - A Framework for Higher Education and Workforce Training (Paperback): Helen Fake,... Designing Personalized Learning Experiences - A Framework for Higher Education and Workforce Training (Paperback)
Helen Fake, Nada Dabbagh
R1,163 Discovery Miles 11 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

• The first book to cover the strategic implementation of personalized learning in workforce education and higher education settings. • A critical contribution to actionable literature on effective lifelong learning, training, and education programs. • Provides a design framework to address many of the challenges facing existing training programs.

E-Learning: A Global Overview (Hardcover): Nadine Jenkins E-Learning: A Global Overview (Hardcover)
Nadine Jenkins
R3,616 R3,267 Discovery Miles 32 670 Save R349 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Towards Learning and Instruction in Web 3.0 - Advances in Cognitive and Educational Psychology (Hardcover, 2012): Pedro Isaias,... Towards Learning and Instruction in Web 3.0 - Advances in Cognitive and Educational Psychology (Hardcover, 2012)
Pedro Isaias, Dirk Ifenthaler, Kinshuk, Demetrios G. Sampson, J. Michael Spector
R2,921 Discovery Miles 29 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Towards Learning and instruction in Web 3.0," which includes selected expanded papers from CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2010 (http: //www.celda-conf.org/) addresses the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes, innovative pedagogies, and technology-based educational applications in the digital age. The convergence of these two disciplines continues to increase and in turn, affects the academic and professional spheres in numerous ways. "Towards Learning and Instruction in Web 3.0 "addresses paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches which have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems. This volume touches on both technological as well as psychological and pedagogical issues related to the developments of Web 3.0.

Identification, Evaluation, and Perceptions of Distance Education Experts (Hardcover): Gulsun Kurubacak, T. Volkan Yuzer Identification, Evaluation, and Perceptions of Distance Education Experts (Hardcover)
Gulsun Kurubacak, T. Volkan Yuzer
R5,369 Discovery Miles 53 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 future trends, needs, and priorities that affect the development of distance education in a postmodern world. This premier reference work will be of significance to those interested in online learning, teaching and training, communication, and education across multiple sectors such as universities, colleges, schools, profit/non-profit e-organizations, and e-commerce.

Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): A. Ranjith Ram, Subhasis Chaudhuri Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
A. Ranjith Ram, Subhasis Chaudhuri
R2,874 Discovery Miles 28 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents various video processing methodologies that are useful for distance education. The motivation is to devise new multimedia technologies that are suitable for better representation of instructional videos by exploiting the temporal redundancies present in the original video. This solves many of the issues related to the memory and bandwidth limitation of lecture videos. The various methods described in the book focus on a key-frame based approach which is used to time shrink, repackage and retarget instructional videos. All the methods need a preprocessing step of shot detection and recognition, which is separately given as a chapter. We find those frames which are well-written and distinct as key-frames. A super-resolution based image enhancement scheme is suggested for refining the key-frames for better legibility. These key-frames, along with the audio and a meta-data for the mutual linkage among various media components form a repackaged lecture video, which on a programmed playback, render an estimate of the original video but at a substantially compressed form. The book also presents a legibility retentive retargeting of this instructional media on mobile devices with limited display size. All these technologies contribute to the enhancement of the outreach of distance education programs. Distance education is now a big business with an annual turnover of over 10-12 billion dollars. We expect this to increase rapidly. Use of the proposed technology will help deliver educational videos to those who are less endowed in terms of network bandwidth availability and to those everywhere who are even on a move by delivering it effectively to mobile handsets (including PDAs). Thus, technology developers, practitioners, and content providers will find the material very useful.

Distance Learning and Educational Technology (Hardcover): Charlie Carson Distance Learning and Educational Technology (Hardcover)
Charlie Carson
R2,734 R2,486 Discovery Miles 24 860 Save R248 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Number Stories Of Long Ago (Hardcover): David Eugene Smith Number Stories Of Long Ago (Hardcover)
David Eugene Smith
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Global Demand for Borderless Online Degrees (Hardcover): Robert P. Hogan Global Demand for Borderless Online Degrees (Hardcover)
Robert P. Hogan
R5,524 Discovery Miles 55 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent decades, community colleges and universities have struggled with less funding, increased competition, and shrinking enrollment. Borderless online degrees offer opportunities to make higher education more accessible and to make foreign study without having to travel abroad an option. Lower cost, high retention, and reduced time to graduate are all key selling points for these degrees. Global Demand for Borderless Online Degrees is an essential research publication that provides the benefits, risks, and solutions for entering the borderless online degree market and discusses novel online approaches that are cost-effective for higher education institutions and affordable for customers at home and abroad. This book describes innovative pedagogy in fused learning classrooms that builds relationship and promotes retention and student satisfaction. Featuring a wide range of topics such as community college, accreditation, and international education, this book is ideal for university presidents, provosts, rectors, chancellors, international educators, administrators, academicians, policymakers, researchers, and students.

English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times - Perspectives, Strategies, and New Ways of Teaching and Learning... English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times - Perspectives, Strategies, and New Ways of Teaching and Learning (Paperback)
Liz England, Georgios Kormpas, Lia D. Kamhi-Stein
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This volume addresses challenges that the field of English language teacher education has faced in the past several years. The global pandemic has caused extreme stress and has also served as a catalyst for new ways of teaching, learning, and leading. Educators have relied on their creativity and resiliency to identify new and innovative teaching practices and insights that inform the profession going forward. Contributors describe how teacher educators have responded to the specific needs and difficulties of educating teachers and teaching second language learners in challenging circumstances around the world and how these innovations can transform education going forward into the future. Paving the way to a revitalized profession, this book is essential reading for the current and future generations of TESOL scholars, graduate students, and professors.

Story of Civilization - Making of the Modern World Activity Book (Paperback): Phillip Campbell Story of Civilization - Making of the Modern World Activity Book (Paperback)
Phillip Campbell
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Assessing the Value of E-learning Systems (Hardcover): Assessing the Value of E-learning Systems (Hardcover)
R2,429 Discovery Miles 24 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Assessing the Value of E-Learning Systems provides an extensive literature review pulling theories from the field of information systems, psychology and cognitive sciences, distance and online learning, as well as marketing and decision sciences. This book provides empirical evidence for the power of measuring value in the context of e-learning systems. ""Assessing the Value of E-Learning Systems"" offers a set of benchmarking tools, such as the Value-Satisfaction grids and LeVIS index, to help administrators of e-learning programs realize the key effective characteristics of their program. The book concludes with a ""cook book"" guidelines approach on how to implement the proposed theory and tools in the reader's own e-learning program.

Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa (Hardcover): Martin Munyao Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa (Hardcover)
Martin Munyao; Contributions by Samuel Agyapong; Foreword by George John Law; Contributions by Laban Ayiro, Trine Jensen, …
R2,390 Discovery Miles 23 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa, edited by Martin Munyao, brings together interdisciplinary authors to address online learning, teaching online, educational technology, online/remote research, institutional collaboration in online higher education, and teaching STEM online. This book argues that beyond survival, universities need to adapt to technology-mediated communication learning to thrive. Disruptive technologies have recently proved to be means of thriving for institutions of higher learning. This is what one contributor calls 'switching to SIDE-mode.' They call for not just teaching for the sake of it, but teaching to communicate and to achieve the desired learning outcomes that seek to transform the whole person. Effective technology mediated teaching for communication does exactly that. Because universities are also research hubs, this book also addresses remote research. It reflects on how change in teaching and learning in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) has impacted Africa through digital transformation. In particular, institutions are collaborating more now than ever before. Finally, this book addresses the challenges of teaching STEM programs online in Africa.

Improving K-12 STEM Education Outcomes through Technological Integration (Hardcover): Michael J. Urban, David A. Falvo Improving K-12 STEM Education Outcomes through Technological Integration (Hardcover)
Michael J. Urban, David A. Falvo
R5,954 Discovery Miles 59 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The application of technology in classroom settings has equipped educators with innovative tools and techniques for effective teaching practice. Integrating digital technologies at the elementary and secondary levels helps to enrich the students' learning experience and maximize competency in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Improving K-12 STEM Education Outcomes through Technological Integration focuses on current research surrounding the effectiveness, performance, and benefits of incorporating various technological tools within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms. Focusing on evidence-based approaches and current educational innovations, this book is an essential reference source for teachers, teacher educators, and professionals interested in how emerging technologies are benefiting teaching and/or learning efficacy.

An Administrator'S Guide To Online Education (Hc) (Usdla Book Series On Distance Learning) (Hardcover, New): An Administrator'S Guide To Online Education (Hc) (Usdla Book Series On Distance Learning) (Hardcover, New)
R2,763 Discovery Miles 27 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike most books regarding online education, this book is not about teaching; it is about effectively administering an online education program. Throughout the text, we provide case studies, examples, policies, and resources from actual institutions, which further enhance the value of this text. This book encompasses the issues and provides information on how to accomplish one specific task: successful online educational administration.

Teaching English Learners from a Distance (Loose-leaf): Laura Alvarez Teaching English Learners from a Distance (Loose-leaf)
Laura Alvarez
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Laura Alvarez, one of the authors of Supporting Newcomer Students, a guide on how to continue to support multilingual students' language development and rigorous learning in a remote environment. In this QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides, Alvarez provides questions to guide instructional planning and key teaching moves for English learners, within a framework of 4 principles for distance learning: Facilitate meaningful interactions Build relationships Use technology purposefully Hold an inquiry stance With extensive tips for how to maintain these goals in both synchronous and asynchronous learning activities, this guide will be a go-to resource for teachers of newcomers and English learners. Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Assessing the Role of Mobile Technologies and Distance Learning in Higher Education (Hardcover): Patricia Ordonez De Pablos,... Assessing the Role of Mobile Technologies and Distance Learning in Higher Education (Hardcover)
Patricia Ordonez De Pablos, Robert D. Tennyson, Miltiadis D Lytras
R5,376 Discovery Miles 53 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, the use of information technologies, mobile devices, and social media, along with the evolving needs of students, professionals, and academics, has grown rapidly. New ways of bringing learning content to students, new learning environments, and new teaching practices are necessary to keep up with these changes. Assessing the Role of Mobile Technologies and Distance Learning in Higher Education provides a comprehensive understanding of m-learning processes by discussing challenges in higher education and the role of information technologies for effective learning. This reference book offers both real experiences and theoretical input for academicians, professionals, students, practitioners, policymakers, and managers.

Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds (Hardcover): Brian C Nelson, Benjamin E Erlandson Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds (Hardcover)
Brian C Nelson, Benjamin E Erlandson
R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Virtual worlds offer engaging, rich visual and auditory experiences to their users. In them, players guide computer-based avatars through virtual landscapes filled with realistic buildings, objects, characters, and the avatars of other players. In the commercial realm, games and online virtual communities attract millions of devoted fans who spend large amounts of time and money in these worlds. In recent years, interest in virtual worlds as platforms for instruction and training has rapidly grown as researchers and designers focus on their potential power as learning environments. Educational virtual worlds are designed to incorporate situated learning concepts of collaborative knowledge building among communities of learners in contexts that closely mimic the real world.

In this, the first text written specifically on how to design virtual worlds for educational purposes, the authors explore: the history and evolution of virtual worlds (commercial and educational), the theories behind the use of virtual worlds for learning, the design of curricula in virtual worlds, design guidelines for elements experienced in virtual worlds that support learning, and design guidelines for learning quests and activities in virtual worlds. They also examine the theories and associated design principles used to create embedded assessments in virtual worlds. Finally, they offer a framework and methodology to assist professionals in evaluating off-the-shelf virtual worlds for use in educational and training settings.

Harmonizing Global Education - From Genghis Khan to Facebook (Hardcover): Jon Baggaley Harmonizing Global Education - From Genghis Khan to Facebook (Hardcover)
Jon Baggaley
R4,477 Discovery Miles 44 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Distance education (DE) offers ways to reach the many people around the world who lack access to education and training by other means. International DE methods, however, are fragmented, and distance educators have often abandoned new technologies before giving them a chance to develop. As a result, many current DE tools and techniques are incompatible with the needs and cultures of different global regions. With the goal of designing efficient, relevant DE for worldwide audiences, Harmonizing Global Education invites scholars and practitioners to consider the historic development of technology-based education and communication studies, going back further in the literature than is often assumed necessary.

The book examines a wide range of historical ideas capable of shaping modern DE, including the Luddite Revolt among British textiles workers in 1811-12, the evolution of cubist art and musical aesthetics, and the visionary advances of early nineteenth-century Soviet multimedia specialists. The author urges an awareness of previous generations of communications studies, and shows how audience research relating to traditional media can be relevant in the design of current internet-based and social media approaches. Today's open universities have grown from these earlier historical efforts, and the future success of open and distance education depends on learning from the successes and the failures of the past.

Advances in Research on Networked Learning (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): Peter M. Goodyear, Sheena Banks, Vivien Hodgson, David... Advances in Research on Networked Learning (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Peter M. Goodyear, Sheena Banks, Vivien Hodgson, David McConnell
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Networked learning is learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources. Networked learning is an area which has great practical and theoretical importance. It is a rapidly growing area of educational practice, particularly in higher education and the corporate sector.

This volume brings together some of the best research in the field, and uses it to signpost some directions for future work. The papers in this collection represent a major contribution to our collective sense of recent progress in research on networked learning. In addition, they serve to highlight some of the largest or most important gaps in our understanding of studentsa (TM) perspectives on networked learning, patterns of interaction and online discourse, and the role of contextual factors. The range of topics and methods addressed in these papers attests to the vitality of this important field of work. More significant yet is the complex understanding of the field that they combine to create. In combination, they help explain some of the key relationships between teachersa (TM) and learnersa (TM) intentions and experiences, the affordances of text-based communications technologies and processes of informed and intelligent educational change.

E-Learning Solutions for Students and Professionals (Hardcover): Nadine Jenkins E-Learning Solutions for Students and Professionals (Hardcover)
Nadine Jenkins
R3,616 R3,267 Discovery Miles 32 670 Save R349 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Online Distance Learning Course Design and Multimedia in E-Learning (Hardcover): Ana Paula Lopes, Filomena Soares Online Distance Learning Course Design and Multimedia in E-Learning (Hardcover)
Ana Paula Lopes, Filomena Soares
R5,784 Discovery Miles 57 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, the rampant development of worldwide communications and powerful modern technologies has reformulated the idea of distance learning and the transmission of higher education content. Combined with these new developments and the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an apparent need for a thorough discussion on all features of e-learning. Online Distance Learning Course Design and Multimedia in E-Learning disseminates research, experiences, and philosophies surrounding innovation within higher education online teaching and learning environments. It includes case studies of relevant and fruitful applications, practical challenges, and examinations of the most recent innovations. Covering topics such as online management education, student engagement, and gamification, this book is an essential resource for academicians, researchers, educators, pre-service educators, principals, administrators, consultants, instructional designers, technologists, computer scientists, and policymakers.

The Perfect Online Course - Best Practices for Designing and Teaching (Hardcover, New): Anymir Orellana, Terry L. Hudgins,... The Perfect Online Course - Best Practices for Designing and Teaching (Hardcover, New)
Anymir Orellana, Terry L. Hudgins, Michael R. Simonson; Series edited by Charles Schlosser, Michael R. Simonson
R3,516 Discovery Miles 35 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a volume in ""Perspectives in Instructional Technology and Distance Education Series"". Editors: Charles Schlosser and Michael Simonson of Nova Southeastern University. ""The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching"" was edited under the assumption that a perfect online course can be delivered following different instructional methods and models for design and for instruction, and by implementing different teaching or instructional strategies. Such methods, models, and strategies are framed within quality educational guidelines and must be aimed towards attaining the online course's learning goals. The book seeks to make a contribution to the existing body of literature related to best practices and guidelines for designing and teaching distance courses, specifically online education. The process of selecting works suitable for this compilation included an extensive review of the journals ""Quarterly Review of Distance Education"" and ""Distance Learning"". The book begins by covering literature related to general approaches and guidelines, continues with proposed methods and models for designing and instruction, and ends with instructional strategies to achieve engagement through interaction. The book is divided into four independent, yet interrelated, parts and a concluding section: Part I: Introduction; Part II: Best Guidelines and Standards; Part III: Best Instructional Methods and Models; Part IV: Best Engagement Strategies; and the concluding section, And Finally..., with words from Simonson who delineates the structure of a perfect online course.

Dialogic Feedback for High Impact Learning - Key to PCP-Coaching and Assessment-as-Learning (Paperback): Filip Dochy, Mien... Dialogic Feedback for High Impact Learning - Key to PCP-Coaching and Assessment-as-Learning (Paperback)
Filip Dochy, Mien Segers, Simla Arikan
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

* Explores the emergent movement away from transmission based to coaching based learning * Champions education as a dialogic process between learners and coaches * Strives for a training model in which the motivated learner embraces challenges and learns to assess his/her own level, * Includes data and examples from schools in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

Service-elearning - Educating for Citizenship (Hardcover, New): Amber Dailey-Hebert, Emily Donnelli-Sallee, Laurie N.... Service-elearning - Educating for Citizenship (Hardcover, New)
Amber Dailey-Hebert, Emily Donnelli-Sallee, Laurie N. Dipadova-Stocks
R2,753 Discovery Miles 27 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection, the first of its kind, marries the two fastest-growing movements in higher education: service-learning and eLearning. While these two innovative pedagogies are widely assumed to be incompatible, this collection highlights their complementary approaches as a new teaching method for 21st Century learners. The collection offers a new pedagogical model-service-eLearning-defined as an integrative pedagogy that engages learners through technology in civic inquiry, service, reflection, and action. Service-learning, which focuses on involvement with local needs and reflective thinking, appears to contrast with eLearning, that implies autonomous education through technology. The goal of this edited collection is to consider how these two educational innovations have and can combine to further encourage civic engagement while meeting the demands of an increasingly global, competitive, and diverse educational marketplace. This edited collection, defines and addresses the emergent blending of service-learning and eLearning to create a new integrated pedagogical model: service-eLearning.Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship starts a conversation about the marriage of two powerful educational innovations. While readers of this collection may be familiar with existing work on servicelearning and technology use, this book demonstrates the potential of a new model which acknowledges eLearning as a pedagogy within its own right. The new model presented here blends eLearning pedagogy with existing approaches to service-learning. The result is an integrated pedagogical approach: Service-eLearning. As the work presented herein highlights, service-eLearning responds to the challenges of today's rapidly-changing, technology-mediated reality.

Distance Teaching for the Third World - The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse (Hardcover): Michael Young, Hilary Perraton, Janet... Distance Teaching for the Third World - The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse (Hardcover)
Michael Young, Hilary Perraton, Janet Jenkins, Tony Dodds
R4,634 Discovery Miles 46 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This reissue, first published in 1980, is based on the experiences of the International Extension College in developing distance teaching. The volume begins by reviewing the world problems of educational quality and quantity, and then examines the ways in which print, broadcasts and group study have been used to train teachers, to improve classroom education, to teach by correspondence out of school, and to support rural development. It then considers how that experience can be used, perhaps by creating a network of radio colleges, to supplement and extend existing schools and colleges. Finally, the book includes a descriptive and annotated bibliography of over 100 distance teaching projects in 65 third world countries.

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