Open & Distance Education and eLearning Books

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1. New Technologies and Creativity in the Secondary School: Theory, Issues and Ideas for Developing Creative Learners

   Edited by Andy Connell, Tony Edwards

   What does it mean to teach someone to be creative? How do new technologies support creativity? New Technologies and Creativity in the Secondary School examines what we mean by teaching young people to be creative, and how technology – vital in young people’s lives – can be used to...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57471-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. 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)

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

   By Gilly Salmon

   The third edition of this bestselling 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 Interdisciplinary 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...

   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. Learning Futures: Imagining the Educational World to Come

   By Keri Facer

   In the twenty-first 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...

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

8. Technology, e-Learning and the Knowledge Society, 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)

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

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

   Developing 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...

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

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

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