Towards the Virtual University

Towards the Virtual University

Author: Nicolae Nistor

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2003-05-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1607525577

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Executive Editor: Mihai Jalobeanu, National Research and Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. This book aims to bring together the work of a number of online learning specialists from around the world, to offer the reader a global view of current and recent research and practice in electronic learning from a variety of disciplines and contexts. Some of the chapter authors indicate the likely directions e-learning may be headed in the next few years. In addition, this book is aimed at informing all those working within online learning and distance education of best practice. The content of this book will be of particular interest to university academics, researchers, college educators, K-12 teachers, education administrators and distance education students. It will also be useful as a text for those studying the management and delivery of distance education and e-learning, and indeed will be of interest to those working in all areas of education. The core of our book, the section entitled Projects and Tools, consists of research reports originally presented at the Romanian Internet Learning Workshop (RILW), an annual international conference series held in Romania between 1997 and 2001, and described in the first chapter of the volume. These projects focus on the development of instructional concepts and tools for technology-based learning environments encompassing diverse fields and disciplines from Educational Science through Intercultural Education and Foreign Languages to Beam Physics.


Understanding Virtual Universities

Understanding Virtual Universities

Author: Roy Rada

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781841508535

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Anticipating a future in which distance learning and virtual reality tutoring systems play a central role in university teaching, this book provides guidelines for utilising such technological opportunities.


The Global Virtual University

The Global Virtual University

Author: John Tiffin

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780415287012

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This book highlights the emergence of the virtual university to fit the needs of the global information society.


The Virtual University

The Virtual University

Author: Susan D'Antoni

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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E-learning and the virtual university are examples of the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a teaching and learning approach and an organizational structure. Both raise issues associated with the phenomenon of cross-border education. This publication explores the related ICT policy, planning and management implications of several new or reorganized institutions of higher education. Three background chapters describe the context - the trends and challenges and the impact of cross-border education. Eight case studies from different regions and representing various institutional models tell the story of their development and relate what they have learned.


The Virtual University

The Virtual University

Author: Steve Ryan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1135368341

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A discussion of the increased accessibility to the Internet and how this has lead to a variety of resources being used for learning. Case studies and examples show the benefits of using the Internet as part of resource-based learning.


Managing Dynamic Networks

Managing Dynamic Networks

Author: Stefan Klein

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 354032884X

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Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices.


Learning and Teaching in Distance Education

Learning and Teaching in Distance Education

Author: Otto Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1136358285

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This unique and comprehensive overview of open and distance education is written by one of the best known names in the field. It integrates historical, contemporary and future aspects of distance education. Packed with international case studies, it goes beyond looking at the methods and technology of distance education, giving Otto Peters' renowned visions on the sociological and social impacts of distance education. Now published in paperback for the first time, this new edition includes a new section on virtual universities. A major contribution to thinking on open and distance education, this new edition will reach an even wider audience.