Open & Distance Education and eLearning Books

New and Published Books

1. Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

   By Louise Starkey

   Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age is for all those interested in considering the impact of emerging digital technologies on teaching and learning. It explores the concept of a digital age and perspectives of knowledge, pedagogy and practice within a digital context. By examining teaching...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Active Learning and Student Engagement

   International Perspectives and Practices in Geography in Higher Education

   Edited by Mick Healey, Eric Pawson, Michael Solem

   This book examines significant issues in geography teaching and learning from the perspectives of an international network of academic geographers and postgraduate students. Drawing on classroom experiences and research in a wide variety of educational settings, the authors describe conceptually...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Changing Spaces of Education

   New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

   Edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

   In today’s modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds

   Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Aleks Krotoski

   Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. World Yearbook of Education 2005

   Globalization and Nationalism in Education

   Edited by David Coulby, Evie Zambeta

   Series: World Yearbook of Education

   This volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Emergent Computer Literacy

   A Developmental Perspective

   By Helen Mele Robinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds

   By Brian C. Nelson, Benjamin E. Erlandson

   Series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Educational Technology

   Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds, the first book focused specifically on how to design virtual worlds for educational purposes, explores: • The history and evolution of virtual worlds; • The theories behind the use of virtual worlds for learning; • The design of curricula in virtual worlds...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Understanding Creative Users of ICTs

   Users as Social Actors

   Edited by David Kurt Herold, Harmeet Sawhney, Leopoldina Fortunati

   The disjuncture between the design intent of the developers of ICTs and the needs of the users has often led to surprising use of new technologies, as users have refused to become mere agents of the designers. Individual users have adopted their own uses of ICTs based on the complex webs of...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Education Networks

   Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind

   By Joel Spring

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments

    2nd Edition

    Edited by David Jonassen, Susan Land

    Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge