Online distance education : towards a research agenda /
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 expert or team of experts provides an overview of one timely issue in online distance educatio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, AB :
AU Press, Athabasca University,
[2014]
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Colección: | Issues in distance education series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword / Otto Peters
- Introduction: Research Areas in Online Distance Education / Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Terry Anderson
- Part I. Macro-level Research: Distance Education Systems and Theories
- 1. Internationalization and Concepts of Social Justice: What Is to Be Done? / Alan Tait and Jennifer O'Rourke
- 2. Globalization, Culture, and Online Distance Learning / Charlotte N. Gunawardena
- 3. Distance Education Systems and Institutions in the Online Era: An Identity Crisis / Sarah Guri-Rosenblit
- 4. Online Distance Education Models and Research Implications / Terry D. Evans and Margaret Haughey
- 5. Methods of Study in Distance Education: A Critical Review of Selected Recent Literature / Farhad Saba
- Part II. Meso-level research: Management, Organization, and Technology
- 6. Organization and Management of Online and Distance Learning / Ross Paul
- 7. The Costs and Economics of Online Distance Education / Greville Rumble
- 8. The Use of Technology in Distance Education / Gráinne Conole
- 9. Innovation and Change: Changing How we Change / Jon Dron
- 10. Professional Development and Faculty Support / Margaret Hicks
- 11. Learner Support in Online Distance Education: Essential and Evolving / Jane E. Brindley
- 12. Quality Assurance in Online Distance Education / Colin Latchem
- Part III. Micro-level Research: Learning and Teaching in Distance Education
- 13. Major Movements in Instructional Design / Katy Campbell and Richard. A. Schwier
- 14. Interaction and Communication in Online Learning Communities: Toward an Engaged and Flexible Future / Dianne Conrad
- 15. Quantitative Analysis of Interaction Patterns in Online Distance Education / Allan Jeong
- 16. From the Back Door into the Mainstream: The Characteristics of Lifelong Learners / Joachim Stöter, Mark Bullen, Olaf Zawacki-Richter, and Christine von Prümmer
- 17. Student Dropout: The Elephant in the Room / Alan Woodley and Ormond Simpson
- Conclusion: Towards a Research Agenda / Terry Anderson and Olaf Zawacki-Richter
- Contributors
- Index.