Key Issues in e-Learning

Research and Practice

Dr Norbert Pachler author Dr Caroline Daly author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:17th Feb '11

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Offers insights that can enable education practitioners to improve their professional practices in relation to the conceptualisation, design, implementation, assessment and evaluation of approaches to e-learning. This text draws on a range conceptual and theoretical evidence and outlines practical approaches to improving practice and research.Enables readers to understand the key issues underpinning e-learning with a view to enabling them to use it effectively in their professional practice. This book offers education practitioners insights that will enable them to improve their professional practices in relation to the conceptualisation, design, implementation, assessment and evaluation of approaches to e-learning. The authors pay attention to the perspectives of both teachers and learners when exploring key questions including: How do online technologies affect pedagogy? How can online technologies best support learning? "Key Issues in e-Learning" avoids simplistic conceptualisations of online teaching and learning. Instead, this text draws on a wide range empirical, conceptual and theoretical evidence and outlines practical approaches to improving practice and research.

‘With sustainability and value as pivotal to e-learning, this book lights the pathways to the future. How to make a difference to e-learning for the future...it's here!' Gilly Salmon, Professor of Learning Futures, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
‘I would recommend it as an introduction to the complexity that surrounds e-learning.' -- ESCalate
... [contains] useful, often highly practical, commentary at many learning technology "trouble-spots": thus I found the content on e-portfolios particularly useful. -- British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 43, No 3, 2012

ISBN: 9781847063601

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 346g

184 pages