Flexible learning in an information society

"This book uses a flexible learning framework to explain the best ways of creating a meaningful learning environment. This framework consists of eight factors - institutional, management, technological, pedagogical, ethical, interface design, resource support, and evaluation; a systematic under...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Khan, Badrul H. 1958-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Flexible learning in an open and distributed environment
  • Modes of openness and flexibility in cognitive flexibility hypertext learning environments
  • Authentic learning on the web: guidelines for course design
  • Designing community learning in web-based environments
  • Intercultural collaborative project-based learning in online environments
  • We'll leave the light on for you: keeping learners motivated in online courses
  • Humanizing learning-at-distance: best practice guidelines for synchronous instructors
  • Storytelling as a web-based workplace learning pedagogy
  • Use of virtual exhibits for promoting science learning on the webs of science centers
  • Flexible online learning - onsite!
  • Asynchronous content design for flexible learning: the macro and micro level of frameworks to share knowledge online between professionals and community
  • Online faculty proficiency and peer coaching
  • What do they learn?
  • Mobile learning technologies
  • Strategies for sharing the TeMoTe: changing the nature of online collaboration
  • Integrating multimedia cues in e-learning documents for enhanced learning
  • Interface design for web learning
  • Improving the usability of distance learning through template modification
  • Management of the learning space
  • Ethical issues in web-based learning
  • Moving toward the implementation of contextualized educational technology.
  • Evaluation strategies for open and distributed learning environments
  • Components of effective evaluation in online learning environments
  • Flexible assessment: some tensions and solutions
  • Toward a comprehensive model of e-learning evaluation: the components
  • Evaluating flexible learning in terms of course quality
  • Assessing online collaborative learning: a theory, methodology, and toolset
  • Evaluating the flexibility of learning processes in e-learning environments
  • Obstacles encountered by learners, instructors, technical support, and librarians
  • A program satisfaction survey instrument for online students.