Enhancing e-learning with media-rich content and interactions

"This book presents instructional designers, educators, scholars, and researchers with the necessary foundational elements, theoretical underpinnings, and practical guidance to aid in the technology selection and design of effective online learning experiences by integrating media-rich interact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caladine, Richard.
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The future of online learning
  • 2. A short history of learning technologies
  • 3. The context
  • 4. A review of methods for selecting learning technologies
  • 5. Existing theoretical approaches to learning technologies, learning activities, and methods of technology selection
  • 6. The learning activities model
  • 7. The learning technologies model
  • 8. The technology selection method
  • 9. Video
  • 10. Recording lectures, streaming, downloading, podcasting, vodcasting, and Webcasting
  • 11. Teaching with real time communications technologies
  • 12. Videoconference, audioconference, and video chat
  • 13. Teaching and learning with videoconference and video chat
  • 14. Access grid
  • 15. The future of real time communications technologies in e-learning
  • 16. The future of rich media, learning management systems, and content management systems
  • Appendix I. A glossary of terms, initials, and acronyms
  • Appendix II. Bits, bytes, definition, and the measurement of bandwidth and storage.