Trends and issues in distance education : international perspectives

Over the last decade, the field of distance education (and e-learning) has substantially strengthened and assumed a more international scope. There has been an impressive growth in the conceptual, empirical and experiential foundations of the field. Trends and Issues in Distance Education: Internati...

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Other Authors Visser, Lya (Editor), Visser, Yusra Laila (Editor), Amirault, Ray J. (Editor), Simonson, Michael R. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
EditionSecond edition.
SeriesPerspectives in instructional technology and distance learning.
Subjects
Distance education.
Education > Distance, Open & Online Education.
Open learning, distance education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615179
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-830-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lya Visser and Yusra Laila Visser
  • Foreword / Lya Visser
  • About the section editors: Bios and photos
  • Section I. Perspectives on global trs and issues in distance education
  • Introduction by yusra laila visser: Section editor
  • Chapter 1. International research: Responding to global needs / Deborah LaPointe and Jennifer Linder-van Berschot
  • Chapter 2. Why don't we simply call it environmental design for the provision and use of distributed learning resources? / Jan Visser
  • Chapter 3. Trends and issues facing distance education: A nowcasting exercise / Brent Wilson
  • Chapter 4. Obstacles and opportunities of distance higher education in international settings / Lya Visser
  • Chapter 5. Distance learning in brazil: A case of the fabulous invalid? / Frederic Litto
  • Chapter 6. Reflections and a critical review of the perspectives on global trends and issues in distance education / J. Michael Spector and Yusra Laila Visser
  • Section II. Distance education in primary and secondary education settings
  • Introduction by michael simonson: Section editor
  • Chapter 7. Virtual schools: The American experience with international implications / Tom Clark and Zane Berge
  • Chapter 8. Interactive radio instruction: Distance education approaches in developing countries / Jennifer Ho and Hetal Thukral
  • Chapter 9. E-learning in the portuguese educational context / Pedro Reis
  • Chapter 10. The difficult route to developing distance education in Mozambique / Muriel Visser-Valfrey, Jan Visser, and Cynthia Moos
  • Section III. Distance education in university and other formalized higher education settings
  • Introduction by ray amirault: Section editor
  • Chapter 11. Will e-learning permanently alter the fundamental education model of the institution we call the university? / Ray Amirault
  • Chapter 12. Distance education - practice before research or research before practice? / Gary Anglin, Gary Morrison, and Jennifer Maddrell
  • Chapter 13. The globalization of the higher education enterprise - issues in the delivery of transnational education in 2010 / Andrea Hope
  • Chapter 14. Distance education support systems - challenges and opportunities / Wai-Kong Ng and Sow-Lai Kong
  • Chapter 15. Personal learning environments in distance education / Ricardo Torres Kompen, Palitha Edirisingha, and Josep M. Monguet
  • Chapter 16. Metacognition in distance learning - the nelson-narens framework / Ansie Minnaar
  • Section IV. Distance education in the workplace and in non-formal settings
  • Introduction by lya visser: Section editor
  • Chapter 17. E-learning at the workplace - the case of a manufacturing company in Malaysia / Teoh Ai Ping
  • Chapter 18. Distance learning in aviation - applications and impacts on a global industry / Michael Crudden
  • Chapter 19. New tools for learning - the use of wiki's / Evgeny Patarakin and Lya Visser
  • Chapter 20. Formalizing learning spaces for refugee youth / Barbara Zeus
  • Chapter 21. Learning landscapes - European perspectives on distance education in prisons / Anita Wilson. Subject Index.

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