SCoE: E-Learning

Offers over a 100 practical yet innovative ideas based on decades of author experience teaching in a variety of educational settings.

Provides guidance on incorporating learning theory into online course content, as well as a host of templates, learning guides, and sample files.

Offers grounded theory and practical guidance on how to integrate cultural needs and sensibilities with the innovative opportunities offered by online learning.

Offers an engaging and practical approach to online teaching that is rooted in the author's experience and enthusiasm for creating a virtual environment that engages students and fosters their deep learning.

Details the evidence-based findings that provide practical guidelines for effective online instructional design.

Discusses the social implications of e-learning, its transformative effects, and the social and technical interplay that supports and directs e-learning.

The focus of this special edition of Education + Training is to provide evidence to support the proposition that e-learning has been a beneficial and transformational innovation. Therefore, this ebook considers issues of impact rather than issues of definition.

Helps teachers develop pedagogical skills in using the internet through a series of case studies of good practice, all of which are based on extensive classroom research.

Provides evidence of the impact of interactivity on e-Learning Systems considering the three main agents of an educational activity: the learner, the teacher and the environment.

Presents several international case studies of online education written by authorities on e-learning and discusses the rhetoric that surrounds this form of teaching and learning.

Chapters in this book focus on using an array of different Web 2.0 technologies and web-enabled learning platforms to create technology-rich learning environments.

Offers targeted suggestions for dealing with such critical issues as evaluating effective courseware, working with online classroom dynamics, addressing the needs of the online student, making the transition to online teaching, and promoting the development of the learning community.

Focuses on the most important issues instructors face, such as course design; student engagement and motivation; and institutional, instructional, and informal student support strategies.

Provides the first critical evaluation of theory and practice in online learning and teaching in higher education.

Functions as a general reference guide and how to manual, encouraging new and experienced instructors to explore the vast variety of resources available to create and/or enhance their online teaching experience.

Provides a multifaceted look at online instruction from a variety of authors and may assist instructors who teach online or will teach online in the future.

Defines and demystifies scenario-based e-learning by offering a practical design model illustrated with examples from veterinary science, automotive troubleshooting, sales and loan analysis among other industries.

Shows how to structure online and blended courses for student engagement, build relationships with online students, facilitate discussion boards, collaborate online, design online assessments, and much more.

Includes essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research.

Shows how to build an intelligent tutoring system, and an intelligent teaching/learning system upon it. Through the use of intelligent tutoring systems, students are placed in an active role, as opposed to the passive role that they more or less have today.

Explores critical issues such as copyright, technology tools, and accessibility and includes examples from top Blackboard practitioners which are applicable to any LMS.