Open & Distance Education and eLearning Books

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1. Digital Discourse: New Directions for Technology-Enhanced Learning

   By Denise Whitelock

   Written to promote e-learning excellence, Digital Discourse outlines and illustrates the effectiveness of computer mediated discourse in teaching and technology-enhanced learning courses. It offers a coherent and effective teaching approach through the use of digital discourses. This approach has...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-99022-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. E-Learning in the 21st Century: A Framework for Research and Practice, 2nd Edition

   By D. Randy Garrison

   The second edition of E-Learning in the 21st Century provides a coherent, comprehensive, and empirically-based framework for understanding e-learning in higher education. Garrison draws on his decades of experience and extensive research in the field to explore the technological, pedagogical, and...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88583-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. E-Moderating: The Key to Online Teaching and Learning, 3rd Edition

   By Gilly Salmon

   The third edition of this best-selling text has been fully updated and addresses many technological changes that have taken place in the field of online learning since 2004. In this revision of e-moderating, Gilly Salmon maintains her sound reputation and delivers another consistent and classic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88174-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds: Immersive Learning in English Studies

   Edited by Allen Webb

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88629-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Foundations of Educational Technology: Integrative Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   By J. Michael Spector

   The first volume in Routledge’s new Integrative Approaches to Educational Technology series, Foundations of Educational Technology is an introductory textbook for students enrolled in Educational Technology Masters and PhD programs. It focuses on fundamental characteristics that cut across users,...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-87471-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Knowledge Making in the Classroom: Tracking Learning in Students' Multimodal Texts

   By Shirley Palframan

   This book is the first to foreground issues of learning and assessment in relation to multimodality – the variety of ways students experience communication outside of school, for example, interactive websites and chat rooms. It explores the use of social semiotic theories in interpreting evidence...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-41111-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Technology, e-learning and the Knowledge Society, 3rd edition, 3rd Edition

   By A. W. (Tony) Bates

   This definitive guide on how best to deliver e-learning materials clearly weighs the pros and cons of using different media in learning environments. Unlike books that just focus on good design or define teaching with technology as merely incoporating the internet and learning management systems,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87776-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Learning Futures: Imagining the Educational World to Come

   By Keri Facer

   In the 21st century educators around the world are being told that they need to adapt young people for an increasingly global knowledge economy in which digital technologies intensify competition and change. They are being asked to re-design and re-imagine educational systems to meet this future...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58143-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Developing Inquiry for Learning: Reflection, Collaboration and Assessment in Higher Education

   By Peter Ovens, Frances Wells, Patricia Wallis, Cyndy Hawkins

   Inquiry for Learning shows how university tutors can help students to improve their abilities to learn and to become professional inquirers. Participation in higher education is widening and students have increasingly diverse needs and learning styles and many bring powerful expectations that...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59877-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Learning Theory and Online Technology: How New Technologies are Transforming Learning Opportunities

    By Linda Harasim

    Learning Theory and Online Technology is a break-through text based on extensive experience, theory, and research. Ideal for learning theory courses in educational technology masters programs and theory courses in instructional design programs, Learning Theory and Online Technology will prepare...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-99976-2 | Paperback (Routledge)