Elizabeth J. Burge / Margaret Haughey (eds.)

Using Learning Technologies

International Perspectives on Practice
Herausgeber: Burge, Elizabeth J; Haughey, Margaret

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection focuses on the issues, practices, and experience of using new technology for learning through distance education. The book promotes cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives, acknowledges gender issues, and proposes context-sensitive guidelines for learning technologies use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780415216876
• ISBN-10: 0415216877
• Artikelnr.: 21100063

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth J. Burge, Margaret Haughey

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction 1. Using Learning Technologies: An Introduction Part 2
Policy Issues 2. Naming the Learning Technology Issues in Developing
Countries 3. Public and Institutional Policy Interplay: Canadian Examples
4. Getting the Systems Right: Experience at the University of the West
Indies 5. Developing Course Materials: A Context of Technology Constraints
Part 3 Practice Issues 6. Lessons from Our Cyberclassroom 7. Teacher or
Avatar? Identity Issues in Computer-mediated Contexts 8. Web-based Research
Assistance 9. 'No One Will Listen to Us': Rural Fulbe Women Learning by
Radio in Nigeria 10. Confronting Barriers to Distance Study in Tanzania
Part 4 Quality Issues 11. Reflections on Evaluating Online Learning and
Teaching 12. Evaluating the Use of Learning Technologies 13.
Gender-sensitive Evaluation Research 14. Using Learning Technologies: A
Synthesis of Challenges and Guidelines