Open Learning, Online and Distance Education Books

This book contains everything you need to know to get started as an online tutor. It covers the essentials of tutoring, choosing your tech and software, managing homework, and getting set up alongside detailed guidance focusing on each level of tuition...

Every day, learners use and reuse open, digital resources for learning. Reusing Open Resources offers a vision of the potential of these open, online resources to support learning. The book follows on from Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach...

With increasing focus on excellence in research and teaching, the service role of the individual academic is often neglected. This book calls for greater recognition of this important aspect of academic life, highlighting the importance of mentoring,...

Synchronous technologies, particularly interactive video conferencing (IVC), are becoming common modes of teaching and delivering college courses. The increasing popularity of IVC in the U.S. and abroad calls for more pedagogically effective practices...

As colleges and universities in North America increasingly identify "internationalization" as a key component of the institution's mission and strategic plans, faculty and administrators are charged with finding innovative and cost-effective approaches...

Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching is a timely guide for Japanese language teachers and anyone interested in language pedagogy. The book outlines an innovative approach to language instruction which goes beyond the communicative...

Effective online teaching is a well-documented topic, however, this book is different because it specifically addresses the effective and affective pedagogy and learning. It provides methods for building a strong and meaningful online environment that...

Blended synchronous learning - where remote students participate in face-to-face classes by means of rich-media synchronous technologies such as video conferencing, web conferencing and virtual worlds - is an emerging phenomenon in education. More and...

Scrittura Creativa tratto: da massimilianoaiello.blogspot.com - edizione 2011Da questo eloquente trattato, si evince la grande modestia e la profonda sensibilità dell'animo dell'autore, che attingendo alla sua appassionata conoscenza del mestiere di...

When online learning began more than two decades ago, many universities envisioned the creation of international student markets, but this has only recently become a reality. The emergence of a global economy, advances in technology, increased market...

In a world bursting with new information, ideas, opportunities, and technological advancements, it is time to rethink how continuous learning shapes our future. Amidst the ongoing digital revolution, widespread educational reform, and the most...

This insightful book sets out five core elements of good practice that will lead to great teaching and learning both within and beyond the classroom. It looks in detail at the learning process and how teachers can support this through a rich mix of...

This collection offers a critical examination of online language teacher education programs (OLTE), looking at a range of issues which have informed their development and the challenges and opportunities in their implementation from a TESOL perspective...

This book illustrates how higher education responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and grew from it. The stage is set for a more resilient higher education with chapters illustrating new paradigms and promise.

PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING | Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod | FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICES IN ONLINE WRITING INSTRUCTION (OWI) addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs...

Digital Futures for Learning offers a methodological and pedagogical way forward for researchers and educators who want to work imaginatively with "what's next" in higher education and informal learning. Today's debates around technological...

This book investigates how schools, enterprises and families in China have coped with the formal online education in the light of government policy throughout the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, with special focus on the problems they have encountered and...

This book provides state-of-the-art contemporary research insights into key applications and processes in open world learning. Open world learning seeks to understand access to education, structures, and the presence of dialogue and support systems. It...

Dissecting in detail the arguments underlying the costs and economics of open and distance learning, this text should give the reader an insight and the confidence to cost their own open and distance learning projects.

Similarity in Diversity documents experiential learning of exchange scholars from Malaysia and the USA. This anthology of personal essays presents the full range of cross-cultural experiences-experiences which enhance mutual understanding and create a...

The progress of broadband ICT is having a big impact on individual lifestyles and corporateactivities. For corporate strategy, broadband use goes beyond improving management efficiency tocontributing to enhancing customer services and developing new...

This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses. It is based ona model now in use at Paris Junior College in Paris, TX which has often resulted in retention ratesof over 90%. It will be a comprehensive practitioner's...

This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses. It is based ona model now in use at Paris Junior College in Paris, TX which has often resulted in retention ratesof over 90%. It will be a comprehensive practitioner's...

The progress of broadband ICT is having a big impact on individual lifestyles and corporateactivities. For corporate strategy, broadband use goes beyond improving management efficiency tocontributing to enhancing customer services and developing new...

The adoption of ICT for personal and business use has encouraged the growth of interactive learning as well as its application in a number of education and training scenarios. Designing effective syllabi for interactive learning projects helps to ensure...

Digital Teaching for Linguistics re-imagines the teaching of linguistics in a digital environment. It provides both an introduction to digital pedagogy and a discussion of technologically driven teaching practices that could be applied to any field of...

In the 21st century technology has become an essential part of teaching and learning. This manual provides practical advice on teaching in a wide range of technologies, including the internet and multimedia packages. Using case studies to illustrate the...

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...

This book highlights all aspects of innovative 21st-century education technologies and skills which can enhance the teaching and learning process on a broader spectrum, based on best practices around the globe.

Volume 17 Number 3 2016The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishingarticles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distanceeducation. The Quarterly Review...

Educational robotics provides students with a learning environment that has the potential to successfully integrate concepts within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) into K12 learning environments in class, after school, or for...

Sponsored by the Association of Educational Communication and Technology (AECT), the third edition of this groundbreaking Handbook continues the mission of its predecessors: to provide up-to-date summaries and syntheses of recent research pertinent to...

Adaptability and the ability to handle rapid and ongoing change are essential for successfully managing any modern educational enterprise, and open and distance learning is no exception. In an often over-looked field, this volume examines the nature of...

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...

Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e-learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing...

Education is an essential for an individual's existence. This book, written by writers from different countries across five continents, is a compilation of global perspectives on distance learning implementations in higher education. The viewpoints are...

Unlike most books regarding online education, this book is not aboutteaching; it is about effectively administering an online education program.Throughout the text, we provide case studies, examples, policies,and resources from actual institutions, which...

Unlike most books regarding online education, this book is not aboutteaching; it is about effectively administering an online education program.Throughout the text, we provide case studies, examples, policies,and resources from actual institutions, which...

Our goal with this book, Research on Enhancing the Interactivity of Online Learning, is to present a juried, scholarly, andaccessible review of research, theory, and/or policy on specific issues of interactive online learning for K-16 educators,...

Our goal with this book, Research on Enhancing the Interactivity of Online Learning, is to present a juried, scholarly, andaccessible review of research, theory, and/or policy on specific issues of interactive online learning for K-16 educators,...

Graduate school is all about writing. Are you prepared to write 15-20-page academic papers? How about 200+ pages of a thesis or a dissertation? Do you know how to take a blank page and create a scholarly research project? Without strong writing skills,...