In this engaging volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens that focuses on the parts we play in technologies, from language and pedagogies to computers and ...

As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. Within this changing landscape of higher education, The Finest ...

Assessment has provided educational institutions with information about student learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But has it informed practice and been fully incorporated ...

The interest in and demand for online terminal degress across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. But what ...

Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as
being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal
learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support ...

Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research. In each chapter, an international ...

Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its
implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible
Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often
taken-for-granted ...

Delivery of university-level courses through online and distance
education can overcome barriers such as geographical location, lecture
and lab scheduling, or their job and family commitments, distance ...

Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated,
and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social
software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners ...