"Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education (5th Edition)

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Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education, 5th Edition,  was awarded the 2011 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Division of Distance Learning Distance Education Book Award !  Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education, Fifth Edition, provides its readers with the most comprehensive coverage on the market today of information about distance education in the 21st century. Primarily written for pre-service teachers, corporate trainers, and staff development programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. Readers will be better equipped with the knowledge and ability to select appropriate strategies for teaching the distant learner and how to implement this new knowledge in a distance learning program, so important to today's educational culture. Five over-arching themes support the text: 1) defining distance education, 2) the importance of research development, 3) distance learning is a viable and increasingly important alternative for teaching and learning, 4) equivalency theory, and 5) the book should be comprehensive-which means it should cover as much as is possible of the various ways instruction is made available to distant learners. Significantly revised and updated, the fifth edition now includes these noteworthy new features and more: chapter goals and objectives, chapter discussion questions, a look at best practice issues, new strategies and techniques, over thirty-percent new resources and references, and a stronger emphasis on how to design, deliver, and evaluate online instruction.

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"Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds (Interdisciplinary Approaches to Educational Technology)

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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- design guidelines for elements experienced in virtual worlds that support learning- design guidelines for learning quests and activities in virtual worlds.The authors also examine the theories and associated design principles used to create embedded assessments in virtual worlds. Finally, a framework and methodology is provided to assist professionals in evaluating off-the-shelf virtual worlds for use in educational and training settings. Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds will be invaluable both as a professional resource and as a textbook for courses within Educational Technology, Learning Sciences, and Library Media programs that focus on gaming or online learning environments.

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"Teaching Languages Online (MM Textbooks Book 12)

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Teaching Languages Online is for new and experienced educators of world languages. The text introduces aspects and considerations involved in teaching fully online and blended courses. Mechanics and challenges are presented using illustrations of actual online teaching practices, practices that are continually linked to contemporary foundations of language pedagogy.

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"Introduction to Google Classroom: An Easy-to-Use Guide to Taking Your Classroom Digital

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Take Control of Your Classroom You didn't become a teacher to fill out paperwork, maintain files and issue reports to administrative staff. Your satisfaction comes from helping young minds develop. Introduction to Google Classroom allows you to spend more time teaching and less time on the other stuff, thanks to its step-by-step breakdown of this helpful program. Learn to navigate the user-friendly interface so you can utilize Classroom's powerful tools for increasing your productivity and streamlining your responsibilities, including:Sharing InformationDistributing AssignmentsTracking Student WorkPosting Grades And so much more

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"Gender and Lifelong Learning: Critical Feminist Engagements

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This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions addressed include:To what extent can the policy discourses and institutional contexts of lifelong learning be seen as masculinised and/or feminised? What are the gender implications of lifelong learning policy? In what ways are learners identities constructed through lifelong learning? Does lifelong learning provide opportunities to challenge or transgress gender binaries? What are the implications for practice?

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"Blending Leadership: Six Simple Beliefs for Leading Online and Off

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An organizational approach to more effective school leadership, online and offLeadership, especially in a school setting, is too important to be merely intuitive. In this generous book, Steve and Reshan outline a new way of thinking for a new kind of leader. Recommended.Seth Godin, author of What to Do When it's Your Turn (and it's Always Your Turn)If you're a school leader, Blending Leadership is the book you need to guide your thinking in today's increasingly networked educational environment. Your students and staff may have varying degrees of comfort with technology, but this book will give you solid guidance on how to lead them both online and offline and chart a path to the future.Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveBlending Leadership provides all school leaders with a unique approach to utilizing technology for more effective learning and leadership. As the online aspects of schools become just as important as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, leaders must be as effective screen-to-screen as they are face-to-face. Drawing from research, experience, and real-world examples, this book explores and unpacks six core beliefs necessary for the blended leader to succeed.Between email, websites, apps, updates, tweets, attachments, infographics, YouTube, and unceasing notifications, most people are inundated with digital detritus, and they either grow to ignore it or get swept under it. Effective blended leaders see these distractions as spurs to action, models, test cases, remixable commodities, and learning opportunities. Blending Leadership gives you the perspective you need to excel and the knowledge to leverage the tools at your disposal.

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"Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science

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Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship.  These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares the stories, motives, insights, and practical tips from global leaders in the open movement.  Note that this e-book is available for free download at: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc

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"Makeology: Makers as Learners (Volume 2)

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Makeology introduces the emerging landscape of the Maker Movement and its connection to interest-driven learning. While the movement is fueled in part by new tools, technologies, and online communities available to today's makers, its simultaneous emphasis on engaging the world through design and sharing with others harkens back to early educational predecessors including Froebel, Dewey, Montessori, and Papert. Makers as Learners (Volume 2) highlights leading researchers and practitioners as they discuss and share current perspectives on the Maker movement and research on educational outcomes in makerspaces. Each chapter closes with a set of practical takeaways for educators, researchers, and parents.

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"The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development

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The Excellent Online Instructor is a guide for new and seasoned faculty who teach online, those responsible for training and developing online instructors, and administrators who must evaluate online faculty performance. This comprehensive resource describes the qualities of and explains how one can become an excellent online instructor. Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt--noted experts in online instruction--the book Includes models based in adult learning principles and best practicesOffers guidelines to test instructors' readiness to teach onlineContains ideas for overcoming faculty resistanceReveals how to develop an effective mentoring programShows how to establish a long-term faculty development effortPraise for The Excellent Online InstructorPalloff and Pratt have a profound understanding of the online educational milieu, its complexities and challenges as well as the potential it opens up to serious educators dedicated to exploiting its full value. Practical and down-to-earth strategies are at the core of what the authors offer the reader in this engaging book. --Michael J. Canuel, CEO, LEARN QuebecThis book examines best practices for effective online teaching and instructor engagement and provides a concise plan for faculty development and effective training methods. Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have provided another essential resource for the field of online teaching and learning that is a must-read for anyone working with faculty or teaching online in either higher education or K-12. --Kaye Shelton, dean, Online Education, Dallas Baptist UniversityWhether you are guiding departmental faculty or looking to improve your own online skills, Palloff and Pratt provide practical steps, tools to organize your processes, best practices to emulate, and valuable resources to help you achieve excellence online. --Lynn Olson, dean, Graduate and Professional Studies, St. Joseph's College Online

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