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Behind the hype of the 'virtual university' lies real change in the
way practitioners approach university teaching. This book focuses
on the changes to teaching both on and off campus that have either
come from, or themselves influenced the development of educational
technologies. Australian authors.
We live in a society with ever changing needs and expectations.
Education practitioners and policymakers need therefore to face the
challenges of new economic, social and technological conditions in
their work. There is a global concern to develop forms of education
and training which are open to the demands and needs of learners,
and which are accessible at times and places suitable to those
learners. Governments, institutions and practitioners are
developing and implementing policies which reflect these trends.
The overall theme of this text is the relationship between
government and organizational policies and the work of
practitioners in open and distance learning. It does this by
exploring a selection of international examples. The authors write
from a wide range of international and organizational perspectives.
Each one draws on significant experience within his or her field.
We live in a society with ever changing needs and expectations.
Education practitioners and policymakers need therefore to face the
challenges of new economic, social and technological conditions in
their work. There is a global concern to develop forms of education
and training which are open to the demands and needs of learners,
and which are accessible at times and places suitable to those
learners. Governments, institutions and practitioners are
developing and implementing policies which reflect these trends.
The overall theme of this text is the relationship between
government and organizational policies and the work of
practitioners in open and distance learning. It does this by
exploring a selection of international examples. The authors write
from a wide range of international and organizational perspectives.
Each one draws on significant experience within his or her field.
This important book provides a context in which the practice of
innovative distance educators can be articulated and communicated
to the expanding field of distance education.
Behind the hype of the 'virtual university' lies real change in the
way practitioners approach university teaching. This book focuses
on the changes to teaching both on and off campus that have either
come from, or themselves influenced the development of educational
technologies. Australian authors.
Distance education is arguably one of the major developments in
education during the 20th Century. From schooling through to
university education, distance education blossomed to facilitate
frontier expansion in the New World, capacity-building in
developing nations, access and equity provision in post-War
societies and flexible professional development and workplace
training for late-modernity. "The International Handbook of
Distance Education" explores the array of distance education
theories and practices as they have been shaped by the late-20th
Century and then positions these in terms of the contemporary
circumstances of the 21st Century. The "Handbook' is intended to be
a comprehensive reference work for practitioners, researchers and
administrators engaged in forms of distance education in private
and public education, from schooling through undergraduate and
postgraduate coursework to doctoral research programs. A critical
thread runs throughout the "Handbook" to provide the reader with
stimulation to critique policy and practice with a view to being
creative and responsive in their own policy development and
educational work. It discusses lifelong and flexible learning
environments.
If you want to grasp the rich complexity of the past, observes
environmental historian Donald Worster, you could do worse than
spend time on the prairie. Seen from high above, it is an orderly
grid of farmland; closer to ground level, it reveals the
industriousness of humanity in the making and remaking of the land.
Considered by many to be lacking in inspiration, the prairie is
shown by photographer Terry Evans to be a land of varied textures.
Evans seeks to have us pay attention to the ways we perceive both
the natural and the cultural in this underappreciated landscape,
and in this stunning collection of photographs she reads the land
for the stories it has to tell.
Widely known for her spectacular photographs of pristine
prairie, Evans here works at low altitudes to focus on the land as
an inhabited place. These fifty black-and-white images document
specific locations and disclose some of the contradictions and
mysteries about how we live on the prairie. Through her lens we
view the site of an ancient Indian village, targets on the Smoky
Hill Weapons Range, and old country cemeteries; observe the
startling contours of plowed fields and sandpits; and witness the
tranquility of deer grazing on new winter wheat. All of these
images help us to understand the layers of life on the prairie and
the complex interweaving of nature and man.
"Outdoor pictures are supposed to be scenes of picturesque
beauty," Worster writes in his accompanying essay, "and the
prairies have seldom met that ideal for most people. Only a few
artists have tried to figure out how to get its tangled, intricate
weave into a revealing frame." Terry Evans has met that challenge,
staking out a middle ground between the extremes of wilderness and
grid to show us that the prairie is more than a commodity to be
subdivided and sold. She brings to "The Inhabited Prairie" a keen
sense of understanding combined with deep artistic vision, opening
our eyes to a prairie we live with but perhaps seldom see.
The May 1927 issue of True Detective magazine dealt with the
shooting of Tommy Evans and subsequent investigation of the case in
the Old 23rd District of Henry County, Tennessee. The True
Detective article read in part, "They told me of the existence of a
'whiskey ring, ' in which it was estimated that seventy-five
percent of the population ... was alleged to have been engaged in
this illicit whiskey business. And it was contended that (Tommy
Evans), a respectable and law-abiding citizen, member of the
minority faction in the moonshine domain, had openly defied the
moonshiners - had became a crusader against them - and died a
martyr to the cause of his convictions. Thus the motive for the
assassination of (Evans) was apparent." The magazine article quoted
a Paris, Tenn., minister, J.H. Buchanan, as saying that, "There are
twelve men in this immediate section ready to stand for
'four-square for the right, ' and there are twenty-five men over
there, and I might be able to name them, who are banded together to
protect and promulgate the liquor interests. The remaining citizens
in this district are in the middle of the road - either in sympathy
with the devil's gang, or they lack the courage to say where they
stand." It was amid such a climate that this book is set. South of
the Mouth of Sandy focuses on the Evans family that settled near
the confluence of the Big Sandy and Tennessee rivers during the
middle part of the 19th century. It traces the ancestry of Tommy
Evans and tells the story of his death on a dirt road and the trial
of his killer.
The May 1927 issue of True Detective magazine dealt with the
shooting of Tommy Evans and subsequent investigation of the case in
the Old 23rd District of Henry County, Tennessee. The True
Detective article read in part, "They told me of the existence of a
'whiskey ring, ' in which it was estimated that seventy-five
percent of the population ... was alleged to have been engaged in
this illicit whiskey business. And it was contended that (Tommy
Evans), a respectable and law-abiding citizen, member of the
minority faction in the moonshine domain, had openly defied the
moonshiners - had became a crusader against them - and died a
martyr to the cause of his convictions. Thus the motive for the
assassination of (Evans) was apparent." The magazine article quoted
a Paris, Tenn., minister, J.H. Buchanan, as saying that, "There are
twelve men in this immediate section ready to stand for
'four-square for the right, ' and there are twenty-five men over
there, and I might be able to name them, who are banded together to
protect and promulgate the liquor interests. The remaining citizens
in this district are in the middle of the road - either in sympathy
with the devil's gang, or they lack the courage to say where they
stand." It was amid such a climate that this book is set. South of
the Mouth of Sandy focuses on the Evans family that settled near
the confluence of the Big Sandy and Tennessee rivers during the
middle part of the 19th century. It traces the ancestry of Tommy
Evans and tells the story of his death on a dirt road and the trial
of his killer.
Beyond Doctorates Downunder is the third book in the highly
successful ""Doctorates Downunder"" trilogy published by ACER
Press. The first, ""Doctorates Downunder"" (2006), helps candidates
complete their doctorates, and the second, ""Supervising Doctorates
Downunder"" (2007), helps supervisors with their vital tasks to
assist candidates during research training. The third book is
designed to assist doctoral graduates use their doctorates in their
lives and careers and is designed as a comprehensive guide to
maximising the benefits of completing a doctorate and communicating
its research. ""Beyond Doctorates Downunder"" is written for
candidates in their final year of doctoral study and for doctoral
graduates in their first five years after completion. The
twenty-seven chapters are clustered around the key steps in
finalising the doctoral process: concluding and reflecting,
learning from experience, result production, strategic planning,
and setting the course for the first five years after graduation.
Thirty-three contributors from universities, enterprise,
consultancy, government and the professions in Australia and
Aotearoa/New Zealand have produced clear and engaging chapters on
how pending and recent doctoral graduates can ensure that they and
the community will benefit from their doctorates.
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