Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues
Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues

Author: Bullen, Mark

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2006-09-30

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1591409527

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Higher education institutions around the world are increasingly turning to e-learning as a way of dealing with growing and changing student populations. Education for the knowledge society means new skills and knowledge are needed and it means that lifelong learning has become a necessity. Higher education institutions are looking to e-learning to provide convenient and flexible access to high quality education and training that is needed to meet these emerging demands. As they implement e-learning, however, institutions are struggling with the many pedagogical, organizational and technological issues. Making the Transition to E-learning: Strategies and Issues provides insights and experiences from e-learning experts from around the world. It addresses the institutional, pedagogical, and technological issues that higher education institutions are grappling with as they move from conventional face-to-face teaching to e-learning in its diverse forms.

On Formative Assessment
On Formative Assessment

Author: Marge Scherer

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1416622926

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This collection of articles from Educational Leadership pulls together some of the best pieces on formative assessment and feedback that will help educators understand how to best use the data they have at their fingertips. The authors tell fellow educators about how to use formative assessment to shape the next phase of instruction and how to look for patterns in students’ assessments and assignments—the mistakes students frequently make and the signals that tell what individuals need, what groups of kids need, and what the whole class needs.

Managing and Designing Online Courses in Ubiquitous Learning Environments
Managing and Designing Online Courses in Ubiquitous Learning Environments

Author: Durak, Gürhan

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-09-27

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1522597816

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The use of technology has a profound influence in educational settings and has experienced significant paradigm shifts with the advents of e-learning and m-learning. As an expected consequence of the evolution of e-learning and m-learning and improvements in the capability of online networked technologies, educators from the fields of distance education and open and distance learning benefit from ubiquitous learning technologies and environments. With the rising import of flexibility and personalization of online learning programs, this new learning format is needed to accommodate shifting student needs. Managing and Designing Online Courses in Ubiquitous Learning Environments is a critical scholarly resource that provides empirical and theoretical research focused on the effective construction and management of advanced online educational environments. Highlighting a variety of topics such as heutagogy, technology integration, and educational resources, this book is essential for educators, curriculum developers, higher education staff, practitioners, academicians, instructional designers, administrators, policymakers, and researchers.

Managing E-learning
Managing E-learning

Author: Badrul Huda Khan

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1591406366

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"This book provides readers with a broad understanding of the emerging field of e-learning and also advises readers on the issues that are critical to the success of a meaningful e-learning environment"--Provided by publisher.

Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context
Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context

Author: Daniel Burgos

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9811578699

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This book presents how to keep working on education in contexts of crisis, such as emergencies, zones of conflict, wars and health pandemics such as COVID-19. Specifically, this work shows a number of strategies to support global learning and teaching in online settings. Particularly, it first presents how to facilitate knowledge sharing and raising awareness about a specific crisis, to increase people’s safety, including educators and learners. The book then discusses various techniques, mechanisms and services that could be implemented to provide effective learning support for learners, especially in learning environments that they do not daily use, such as physical classrooms. Further, the work presents how to teach and support online educators, no matter if they are school teachers, university lecturers, youth social workers, vocational training facilitators or of any other kind. Finally, it describes worldwide case studies that have applied practical steps to keep education running during a crisis. This book provides readers with insights and guidelines on how to maintain learning undisrupted during contexts of crisis. It also provides basic and practical recommendations to the various stakeholders in educational contexts (students, content providers, technology services, policy makers, school teachers, university lecturers, academic managers, and others) about flexible, personalised and effective education in the context of crisis.

Blended Learning and Online Tutoring
Blended Learning and Online Tutoring

Author: Dr Janet MacDonald

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1409485552

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Blended learning provides the flexibility to accommodate the varied requirements of pedagogies, disciplines and levels of course, together with the needs of a wide variety of learners. However, anyone concerned with the integration of online tutoring to support students appropriately may need to reassess current practice. This book adopts a pragmatic and common-sense approach to blended learning by situating the use of online media within a well-grounded teaching and learning strategy. It provides practical ideas for the successful implementation of blended strategies, including good practice in both asynchronous and synchronous tutoring, appropriate assessment design for developing successful blended learners, and innovative approaches to professional development for distance tutors. It is illustrated with a wide variety of examples and comments from students and practitioners in both distance and campus-based environments in 13 different countries. Since the first edition was published in 2006, there has been great interest in Web 2.0 technologies and their potential for use in an educational environment. This second edition has therefore incorporated many new examples of good practice, making use of a combination of tried and tested tools as well as blogs and wikis for supporting students. There has also been a recent rise in the use of activity-based learning and interest in its potential for supporting students in distance and online environments. The new edition incorporates many new exemplars of learning activity design in Part Three, to illustrate approaches to the development of critical, independent learners.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development

Author: Lorraine Stefani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1136944761

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Written for academic developers, academic administrators and others responsible for promoting organizational change, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development shares best practice advice and frameworks for evaluation and monitoring.

Cases on Technology Enhanced Learning through Collaborative Opportunities
Cases on Technology Enhanced Learning through Collaborative Opportunities

Author: Mukerji, Siran

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-03-31

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 161520752X

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"The collection of cases in the book analyzes and evaluates how organizations and institutions of learning in the developing and developed world are adapting to technology enhanced learning environments and exploring transnational collaborative opportunities"--Provided by publisher.

Enhancing Learning Design for Innovative Teaching in Higher Education
Enhancing Learning Design for Innovative Teaching in Higher Education

Author: Palahicky, Sophia

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1799829456

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The higher education landscape is embracing the call to be innovative, yet scholars have not clearly defined what it means to innovate. Innovation is not limited to the use and adoption of educational technologies, and it encompasses a broad array of elements that must be considered if we are to truly aspire toward innovative teaching in higher education. Enhancing Learning Design for Innovative Teaching in Higher Education is a critical scholarly publication that examines how instructional systems design, instructional design, educational technologies, curriculum design, and program design impact innovation and innovative teaching in higher education. The book offers definitions of innovative teaching and examines critical intersections to achieve innovation and innovative teaching in post-secondary environments. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as program mapping and learning design, this book is essential for academicians, administrators, professionals, curriculum developers, instructional designers, K-12 teachers, educational technologists, researchers, and students.