Forthcoming Open & Distance Education and eLearning Books

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31. Learning Online

    What Research Tells Us About Whether, When and How

    By Barbara Means, Marianne Bakia

    To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
32. Ethics for Educational Technology and Instructional Design

    An Applied Introduction

    Edited by Stephanie L. Moore

    We are beginning to learn that the success of educational technologies lies less in the technologies themselves than in our ability to engage in thoughtful, ethical design around the system into which we are introducing innovations. As a result, the interactions between technology and social...

    To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
33. Adaptive Learning Opportunities

    Toward a More Personal Education

    By Gary J Natriello

    Series: New Learning Times

    Adaptive Learning Opportunities provides an introduction to adaptive learning technologies as a way to create personal educational opportunities for students at a variety of stages across a range of areas of study. By design, adaptive educational systems present personalized educational...

    To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
34. The Instructional Value of Digital Storytelling

    Higher Education, Professional, and Adult Learning Settings

    By Patricia McGee

    Although storytelling has been recognized as an effective instructional strategy for some time, most educators are not informed about how to communicate a story that supports learning—particularly when using digital media. Digital Storytelling for Instruction provides a broad overview of the...

    To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
35. An Education in Facebook?

    Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network

    Edited by Mike Kent, Tama Leaver

    An Education in Facebook? examines and critiques the role of Facebook in the evolving landscape of higher education. At times a mandated part of classroom use, at others an informal network for students, Facebook has become an inevitable component of college life, acting alternately as an...

    To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge