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Learning in Virtual Worlds

Learning in Virtual Worlds

Research and Applications
edited by Sue Gregory; Mark J.W. Lee; Barney Dalgarno & Belinda Tynan
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Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support these claims has been anecdotal but the potential that these environments hold to solve traditional problems in online and technology-mediated educa …

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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country

Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country

Memories of a Mother and Son
by Elizabeth Bingham Young & E. Ryerson Young, edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown
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In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight …

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Teaching Crowds

Teaching Crowds

Learning and Social Media
by Jon Dron & Terry Anderson
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Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems (LMS). Howeve …

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Online Distance Education

Online Distance Education

Towards a Research Agenda
edited by Olaf Zawacki-Richter & Terry Anderson
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Online Distance Education provides a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research. In each chapter an international expert or team of experts provides an overview of one relevant issue in online distance education, discussing theoretical insights that guide the research, summarizing ma …

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Teaching Health Professionals Online

Teaching Health Professionals Online

Frameworks and Strategies
by Sherri Melrose; Caroline Park & Beth Perry
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Teaching Health Professionals Online is a must-read for professionals in the health care field who strive to deliver excellence in their online classes. Intended for a wide range of professionals, including nurses, social workers, occupational and radiation therapists, chiropractors, dietitians, and dental hygienists, this compendium of teaching st …

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Teaching in Blended Learning Environments

Teaching in Blended Learning Environments

Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry
by Norman D. Vaughan; Martha Cleveland-Innes & D. Randy Garrison
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Teaching in Blended Leaning Environments provides a coherent framework in which to explore the transformative concept of blended learning. Blended learning can be defined as the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and complementary face-to-face and online approaches and technologies. A direct result of the transformative innovation of virt …

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The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner

The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner

A Transformational Journey
by Judy Rashotte
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tagged : caregiving, critical & intensive care, nurse & patient

From the moment it was first proposed, the role of the nurse practitioner has been steeped in controversy. In the fields of both nursing and medicine, the idea that a nurse practitioner can, to some degree, serve as a replacement for the physician has sparked heated debates. Perhaps for that reason, despite the progress of the nurse practitioner mo …

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Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice

Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
edited by Elizabeth Burge; Chère Campbell Gibson & Terry Gibson
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Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder efforts toward flexibility. The collection in inte …

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Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

edited by George Veletsianos
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A one-stop knowledge resource, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education showcases the international work of research scholars and innovative distance education practitioners who use emerging interactive technologies for teaching and learning at a distance.

 

This widely anticipated book harnesses the dispersed knowledge of international experts wh …

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Letters from the Lost

Letters from the Lost

A Memoir of Discovery
by Helen Waldstein Wilkes
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On 15 March 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, only letters from their extended family could reach Canada through the barriers of conflict. The Waldstein family received these letters as they made …

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Accessible Elements

Accessible Elements

Teaching Science Online and at a Distance
edited by Dietmar Kennepohl & Lawton Shaw
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tagged : science & technology, study & teaching, distance education & learning

Accessible Elements informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, and the relevant educational theory. Delivery of university-level courses through online and distance ed …

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A Designer's Log

A Designer's Log

Case Studies in Instructional Design
by Michael Power
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tagged : distance education & learning, higher, science & technology

Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-m …

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Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning

Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
edited by Mohamed Ally
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This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives i …

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Le conseiller pédagogique réflexif

Le conseiller pédagogique réflexif

Un journal de bord
by Michael Power
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tagged : science & technology, distance education & learning

Transformer un organisme qui dispense des cours traditionnels en un organisme qui offre des cours à distance et en ligne n’est pas une entreprise de tout repos. Il faut comprendre que l’on travaille avec des spécialistes de la matière qui ont, dans la plupart des cas, toujours présenté leur enseignement en mode présentiel, en salle de cla …

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The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

edited by Terry Anderson
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tagged : educational software, distance education & learning, science & technology

In this important collection of essays by practitioners and scholars that has been downloaded nearly half a million times is an overview of some of the most pressing issues in online education. By addressing transformations arising from educational technology advances and the new business conditions and modes of delivery of education, the contribut …

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