Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education - Couverture souple

Simonson, Michael; Smaldino, Sharon E.; Albright, Michael; Zvacek, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0137692587 ISBN 13 : 9780137692583

Editeur : Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

For use in an Introductory Distance Education course.

This text was written because of the recent growth in distance education and the anytime, anyplace teaching and learning trends that accompany it. Using a student-centered approach, it equips future teachers and trainers with the basic information they will need to become effective navigators in distance education. The “foundations” portion of the book is designed to provide a conceptual, theoretical foundation. The “applications” portion of the text provides practical skills and information, along with numerous opportunities for hands-on experience.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Are you prepared to teach at a distance or manage distance education systems? The fourth edition of Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education provides you with the basics you need to become a knowledgeable distance educator including:

• theory and research that inform distance learning (Part I),
• practical skills and knowledge needed to function immediately in a distance learning environment (Part II),
• and managerial and administrative issues that arise in the distance learning environment (Part III).  

Teaching and Learning at a Distance is unique in its broad coverage of the various technologies that can be used for the delivery of distance education from correspondence study to online, internet-based learning. Current users of this text will recognize the organization of the table of contents has not changed but will be pleased to see the information reflects current thought and accepted practices in distance education including an increased emphasis on internet-based distance education.

 

Features For Your Success:

• NEW! Increased coverage of Course Management Systems.
• NEW! Assessment for Distance Education (Chapter10) has been thoroughly revised.
• NEW! Copyright and Distance Education (Chapter 11) reflects major updates in the interpretation of copyright case law providing a more comprehensive and applied perspective.
• NEW! A Look at Best Practice Issues feature presents critical issues in the field of distance education.
• NEW! Stronger emphasis is placed on how to design, deliver, and evaluate online instruction as distance education has matured and the importance of online instruction has grown.
• NEW! Discussion Questions have been added to five chapters encouraging class disucssion on chapter-related key concepts and issues.
• Chapter Goals and Objectives provide you with an organizational plan and structure chapter information.
• Numerous visuals have been added to clarify concepts and explain procedures.
• Self-Test Questions and Answers to Self-Test Questions sections at end of key chapters help the reader review  the core ideas and issues of the chapter.
• References and Additional Readings are included at the end of select chapters for further exploration of chapter concepts.

Quatrième de couverture

Unique in its broad coverage of the various technologies that can be used for the delivery of distance education, the fifth edition of Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education provide the basics you need to become a knowledgeable distance educator or manager of distance education systems:

• Part I cover the theory and research that inform distance learning,
• Part II addresses practical skills and knowledge needed to function immediately in a distance learning environment, and
• Part III explores managerial and administrative issues that arise in distance learning environments.

 

Know for its definition of education for the field, research base, advocacy for distance ed as a viable and increasingly important alternative for teaching and learning, coverage of equivalency theory, and comprehensive coverage of the modes of distance learning, this thoroughly revised edition reflects the following changes:

 

New to This Edition:

• A streamline edition containing 12 chapters (instead of 13) with the Internet-based distance education content incorporated throughout.
• Dozens of new visuals have been added to clarify ideas and explain procedures.
• Additional information about the virtual schooling movement.
• Major revision of Chapter 3 (Research and Distance Education) to update what is known about the best practices in DE.
• Stronger emphasis in this edition is placed on how to design, deliver, and evaluate online instructions, supported by the latest research.
• All new end-of-chapter discussion questions are designed for instructors to post as a start for threaded discussions and for students to focus on key ideas.
• As distance education has grown into a mainstream teaching and learning approach, many new strategies are included in this edition to help the learner, teacher, and manager understand the impact of new ideas, such as open source course management systems.
• Over 30% of the resources and references included in this edition of Teaching and Learning at a Distance are new.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0137692587
• ISBN 13: 9780137692583
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 241
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible