This internationally respected series features invaluable contributions from the world's leading experts in the field of online learning. It offers a combination of innovative research and practical advice, offering valuable insights into the comprehensive process of developing, teaching, learning, and managing online and distance learning materials.
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
Behind the hype of the "virtual university" lies real change in the way practitioners approach university teaching. This book focuses on the changes to teaching both on and off campus that have either come from, or themselves influenced the development of educational technologies....
Published December 31st 1999 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
Research has indicated that assessment is a key factor in student learning. This book details the issues of assessment in the open and distance learning field, where changes in budgets, the location and environment of the students and other factors have prompted innovations in assessment....
Published October 31st 1999 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
Designed to help those who are planning to produce open or flexible learning materials, particularly trainers who must work on their own with little support or encouragement. All aspects of the design and production of materials is examined, including the role of audio and video cassettes....
Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
This text reviews the strategies adopted in a range of behaviourist approaches to the setting and realization of standards - identifying the background from which they emerged and ways in which they might be further developed....
Published May 31st 1998 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
This title examines the implications of personal, practical theories of distance learning for both distance learners and those who prepare distance learning materials. Case studies are used to reinforce and illustrate the arguments....
Published June 30th 1997 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
This text offers a perspective on issues surrounding student learning by addresssing questions of quality and learning effectiveness across a broad and diverse range of courses, student populations and contexts....
Published May 31st 1997 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
The author of this text concentrates on the management and support systems needed in open and distance learning, to help the reader decide whether an open learning system is appropriate for their given situation....
Published April 30th 1997 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
This package describes the benefits of using audio cassettes in the teaching process, particularly for open learning. It includes a free cassette which takes teachers or trainers through each step of creating and recording their own course material....
Published July 31st 1994 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
Designed for those developing open or distance learning materials, this guide describes various kinds of projects along with the appropriate tuition methods, assessment procedures and the expected learning outcome. The tutor's role as supervisor is examined, as are grading and assessment methods....
Published April 30th 1994 by Routledge
Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series
An introduction to three types of interactive media - computer conferencing, audiographics and video conferencing - which explains how each type can be used in the open learning environment. It describes attributes and limitations, analyzing appropriate applications through case studies....
Published March 31st 1994 by Routledge
