Open & Distance Education and eLearning

This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting it...

A growing interest in the use of games-based approaches for learning has been tempered in many sectors by budget or time constraints associated with the design and development of detailed digital simulations and other high-end approaches...

Online Education is a comprehensive exploration of blended and fully online teaching platforms, addressing history, theory, research, planning, and practice...

Online Education Policy and Practice examines the past, present, and future of networked learning environments and the changing role of faculty within them...

Provides a comprehensive look at a state-of-the-art online education, and presents advice on the creation, adaptation and implementation of learning objects and metadata. _x000D_ This book will be essential reference material for learning technologists, course developers at learning institutions, po..

Online Gaming and Playful Organization explores the cultural impact of gaming on organizations...

Online Gaming and Playful Organization explores the cultural impact of gaming on organizations...

This unique collection of case studies shows how cutting edge technologies have been used in teaching STEM subjects remotely to students in 4 different continents. The topics covered include technologies for distance learning and collaboration, pedagogies for online learning, and remote communicatio..

Perspectives on Social Media presents the most current research on the effectiveness of social media across sectors...

With a wide range of practical, tried-and-tested examples and case studies, the book provides a complete guide to setting up ODL courses. It offers practical advice on how to find your students, expand your audience and become cost-effective without compromising quality...

This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Learning and technology are intertwined to tell an emergent story about partnerships with technology...

Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course critiques the problematic reliance on humanism that pervades online education and the MOOC, and explores theoretical frameworks that look beyond these limitations...