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Distance Learning Books
Why these books? The purpose of these listings is to provide you with easy access to relevant additional information.
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Teaching and Learning at a Distance
Here is concise, to-the-point coverage of the foundations of the field and how it came to be dominated by the World Wide Web and the Internet. And here is expansive, practical, hands-on instruction in exactly how to do distance teaching through computer technology, videotape, or simple audio techniques.-- from back cover
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Distance Training : How Innovative Organizations are Using Technology to Maximize Learning and Meet Business Objectives
"This manual is the one we have been waiting for! It takes dead aim at all the important issues facing distance learning providers and hits the bull's eye on every one of them. It is down to earth, real world, and up to date. Its examples and insights for practitioners help create the sense of urgency and excitement all of us in distance learning feel today." (Michael P. Lambert, executive director, Distance Education and Training Council)-- from Amazon review
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Distance Learners in Higher Education: Institutional Responses for Quality Outcomes
A fine overview of a currently-hot topic (among educators, anyway.) Dr. Campbell-Gibson is concerned mainly with the quality of the instruction available, in terms of learner retention, i.e. do the learners finish their course? She is attempting here to provide a tool for the distance educator to use in creating a learning context which maximizes the learner's chances of success.
As she says in the Introduction, "There's no one to call. . . . If the distance learner is to succeed, we as faculty must do more than provide access to information. We need to truly understand that learner and design environments that facilitate learning, environments that enhance access to and success in higher education." -- from Amazon review
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Distance Education: A Systems View
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"Distance Education: A Systems View" -- The most comprehensive and authoritative text on the subject, Distance Education, Second Edition retains its emphasis on a systems approach in the organization and selection of material. The authors apply their long and broad experience to the task of selecting from, and clarifying, information on the theory, research, and practice of distance education, including how to design and teach courses, the technologies employed, characteristics of learners, organizational structures, and policy perspectives.
from the Publisher
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