ICT Books

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21. The Digital Classroom

    Harnessing Technology for the Future of Learning and Teaching

    By Peter John, Steve Wheeler

    Based on a major research project (the InterActive Project), this book explores and illustrates how digital technologies can transform learning across the curriculum. Using a wide range of educational settings – primary, secondary, school and home – it will help practitioners think about, plan and...

    Published December 20th 2007 by David Fulton Publishers
22. Improving Student Retention in Higher Education

    The Role of Teaching and Learning

    By Glenda Crosling, Liz Thomas, Margaret Heagney

    Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with...

    Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
23. Project Managing E-Learning

    A Handbook for Successful Design, Delivery and Management

    By Maggie McVay Lynch, John Roecker

    Project Managing E-learning provides an essential framework, based on the globally accepted IPECC model, for planning, designing, delivering, managing and evaluating e-learning projects successfully. It focuses on practical, easy-to-understand methods and offers applications of project management...

    Published May 23rd 2007 by Routledge
24. Online Education Using Learning Objects

    Edited by Rory McGreal

    'E-learning is integral to on-site education institutions worldwide, and the rapid explosion of interest in the subject means that this timely, cutting-edge book will be an instant and indispensable resource. Among educators, the development of reusable learning objects made accessible via the...

    Published April 11th 2007 by Routledge
25. Virtual Learning Environments

    Using, Choosing and Developing your VLE

    By Martin Weller

    Virtual learning environments are widely spread in higher education, yet they are often under utilised by the institutions that employ them. This book addresses the need to move beyond thinking about the VLE simply in terms of the particular package that an institution has adopted, and viewing it...

    Published February 14th 2007 by Routledge
26. Interactions in Online Education

    Implications for Theory and Practice

    Edited by Charles Juwah

    Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

    Interactivity is at the very heart of learning and is evident at all levels of engagement, whether between fellow students, students and tutors, online learning materials or interfacing with the learning environment. Covering both theory and the practical implications of the issues discussed, this...

    Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
27. Student Engagement in Campus-Based and Online Education

    University Connections

    By Hamish Coates

    Blended learning is firmly established in universities around the world, yet to date little attention has been paid to how students are enaging with this style of learning. Presenting a theoretically-based and empirically-validated model of engagement, this book examines the...

    Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge
28. Designing Video and Multimedia for Open and Flexible Learning

    By Jack Koumi

    Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

    This is a comprehensive, practical guide to the most effective use of video and multimedia in open and distance learning. Illustrated throughout, it considers pedagogic design principles for the highest quality learning material, covering: what to teach on video and how to teach it when to...

    Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
29. Mobile Learning

    A Handbook for Educators and Trainers

    Edited by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, John Traxler

    Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

    Emphasising the issues of usability, accessibility, evaluation and effectiveness and illustrated by case studies drawn from contemporary projects from around the world, this book considers: the fundamentals of mobile technologies and devices the educational foundations of modern networked learning...

    Published August 17th 2005 by Routledge
30. Technology, e-learning and Distance Education

    By A.W. (Tony) Bates

    Series: Routledge Studies in Distance Education

    Award-winning in its first edition, this book is an essential guide to the use of technology in flexible and distance learning, weighing up the pros and cons of different media. Fully updated, this second edition: examines criteria and guidelines for the design and delivery of effective teaching,...

    Published April 13th 2005 by Routledge