Electronic learning communities : issues and practices

• Other Authors: Reisman, Sorel (Editor), Flores, John G. (Editor), Edge, Denzil (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2003.
• Series: USDLA book series on distance learning.
• Subjects: Distance education > Computer-assisted instruction.; Educational technology.; Education > Computers & Technology.; Educational: Technology.; Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918117226
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-558-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 565 pages) : illustrations

This book focuses on electronic learning communities created through the development and use of the Internet for instruction and training. The chapters focus on philosophies, background, reviews, technologies, systems, tools, services, strategies, development, implementation, research, and guideline...

Table of Contents:

• Interactive online educational experiences : e-volution of graded projects / James Benjamin
• Hybrid courses as learning communities / Penelope Walters Swenson and Mark Evans
• Building electronic communities for distance learners : beyond the course level / David Brigham
• Faculty-librarian collaboration in online course development / Sharon M. Edge
• A different practice : spanning the digital divide through distance learning / Lisa Holstrom and John G. Bryan
• Preparing faculty members to teach in the e-learning environment / Barbara Fennema
• Grow your own course management the way you want it / Matthew E. Mooney
• Strategies for teaching thinking and promoting intellectual development in online classes / William Peirce
• Online learning as an improvement? : the case of economic principles / Chiara Gratton-Lavoie and Denise Stanley
• Developing an effective online orientation course to prepare students for success in a Web-based learning environment / Maggie McVay Lynch
• Course management as a pedagogical imperative / Xiaoxing Han ... [et al.]
• Exclusion in international online learning communities / S. Mavor and B. Trayner
• Yours, theirs, mine : just who owns those distance courses? / John G. Bryan
• Writing winning distance education teaching and learning grants / Catherine S. Bolek and Ronald G. Forsythe.