Open & Distance Education and eLearning Books

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41. A Guide to Authentic e-Learning

    By Jan Herrington, Thomas C. Reeves, Ron Oliver

    Series: Connecting with E-learning

    Part of the groundbreaking Connecting with e-Learning series, A Guide to Authentic e-Learning provides effective, working examples to engage learners with authentic tasks in online settings. As technology continues to open up possibilities for innovative and effective teaching and learning...

    Published November 30th 2009 by Routledge
42. Students' Experiences of e-Learning in Higher Education

    The Ecology of Sustainable Innovation

    By Robert Ellis, Peter Goodyear

    Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

    Students’ Experiences of e-learning in Higher Education helps higher education instructors and university managers understand how e-learning relates to, and can be integrated with, other student experiences of learning. Grounded in relevant international research, the book is distinctive in that it...

    Published September 27th 2009 by Routledge
43. Learning with Digital Games

    A Practical Guide to Engaging Students in Higher Education

    By Nicola Whitton

    Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

    Written for Higher Education teaching and learning professionals, Learning with Digital Games provides an accessible, straightforward introduction to the field of computer game-based learning. Up to date with current trends and the changing learning needs of today’s students, this text offers...

    Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
44. Distance and Blended Learning in Asia

    By Colin Latchem, Insung Jung

    Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

    Distance and Blended Learning in Asia is a unique and comprehensive overview of open, distance learning (ODL) and information and communication technology (ICT) in Asian education and training. Broad in coverage, this book critically examines ODL and ICT experiences from Japan to Turkey and from...

    Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge
45. Changing Language Education Through CALL

    Edited by Randall P. Donaldson, Margaret A. Haggstrom

    Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

    The last twenty years has seen a huge evolution in approaches to language-learning, due to new technology as well changing theories on how to best teach languages. Recognising the key relationship between research, practice and program development, Changing Language Education Through CALL is an...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
46. Mobile Learning Communities

    Creating New Educational Futures

    By Patrick Alan Danaher, Beverley Moriarty, Geoff Danaher

    Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace...

    Published June 2nd 2009 by Routledge
47. Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education

    Edited by Patrick Alan Danaher, Máirín Kenny, Judith Remy Leder

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school...

    Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge
48. Constructivist Instruction

    Success or Failure?

    Edited by Sigmund Tobias, Thomas M. Duffy

    Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructivist theories and practice now dominate the fields of the learning sciences, instructional technology,...

    Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge
49. Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume III

    Building a Common Knowledge Base

    Edited by Charles M. Reigeluth, Alison A. Carr-Chellman

    Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume III: Building a Common Knowledge Base is perhaps best described by its new subtitle. Whereas Volume II sought to comprehensively review the proliferating theories and models of instruction of the 1980’s and 1990’s, Volume III takes on an even more...

    Published February 1st 2009 by Routledge
50. Harnessing Technology for Every Child Matters and Personalised Learning

    By John Galloway

    This book takes into account three core policies: 'Every Child Matters', 'Personalised Learning', and 'Harnessing Technology', combined they are at the heart of changes to children and young peoples’ experiences of school. Harnessing Technology considers these policies and their interlinked...

    Published November 26th 2008 by David Fulton Publishers