Handbook of Distance Education

The second edition of this award-winning book continues the mission of its predecessor, to provide a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of distance education, arguably the most significant development in education over the past quarter century. While the book deals with education that uses technology, the focus is on teaching and learning and how its management can be facilitated through technology.The key features include: comprehensive - coverage includes all aspects of distance education including design, instruction, management, policy, and a section on different audiences; chapter structure - chapter authors frame their topic in terms of empirical research (past and present) and discuss the nature of current practice in terms of that research. Future research needs are discussed in relation to both confirmed practice and recent changes in the field; theoretical foundation - section one provides a unique review of the theories that support distance education pedagogy; global perspective - section six provides a unique review of distance education as a component of a global culture; and new material - all chapters have been updated and approximately one third are either new or have new authors.A sample of new chapters includes: A History of Scholarship; Trends in Research; Group Development in Online Distance Learning; The Theory of Transactional Distance; A Theory of Community of Inquiry; Supporting the Disabled Student; Fulfilling the Promise of Learning Objects; and Media-Based Learning Styles. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged in distance education at either the K-12 or college level. It is also appropriate for corporate and government trainers and for administrators and policy makers in all these environments.

ISBN 0805858474   Pages 720 ISBN13 9780805858471 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Weight (grammes) 1451 Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Published in Mahwah Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780805839241 Publication date 12 Apr 2007   Height (mm) 254 Library of Congress LC5800   Width (mm) 178 DEWEY 371.35   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		The handbook in brief : an overview
1		A history of scholarship by Linda M. Black		3
2		A history of national and regional organizations and the ICDE by Charles Feasley and Ellen L. Bunker		15
3		Trends in research : a content analysis of major journals by Youngmin Lee and Marcy P. Driscoll and David W. Nelson		31
4		A systems approach in theory building by Farhad Saba		43
5		The most industrialized form of education by Otto Peters		57
6		A theory of teaching-learning conversations by Borje Holmberg		69
7		A theory of community of inquiry by D. Randy Garrison and Walter Archer		77
8		The theory of transactional distance by Michael Grahame Moore		89
9		Independent learning by William Anderson		109
10		Cognitive perspectives on technology-enhanced distance learning environments by Michael J. Hannafin and Janette R. Hill and Liyan Song and Richard E. West		123
11		Group development in online distance learning groups by Kayleigh Carabajal and Deborah LaPointe and Charlotte N. Gunawardena		137
12		Literature of satisfaction by Mike Allen and Nancy Burrell and John Bourhis and Erik Timmerman		149
13		Student achievement in elementary and high school by Cathy Cavanaugh		157
14		Gender matters in online learning by Cheris Kramarae		169
15		Academic advising in degree programs by Robert F. Curry and Phyllis D. Barham		181
16		Supporting the disabled student by Shelley Kinash and Susan Crichton		193
17		The role of academic libraries by Stephen H. Dew		205
18		Instructional design and the technologies : an overview by Rick Shearer		219
19		Frameworks for design and instruction by Curtis J. Bonk and Vanessa P. Dennen		233
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"Well edited, logically sequenced, progressive, and highly readable, the Handbook is accessible to administrators, teachers, corporate trainers, and students." -- Diane Martinez, Technical Communication (November 2008), Vol. 55, No. 4 "This handbook should be available in all libraries catering to the needs of distance education practitioners, and it should be used as a handy reference tool to perform better in their roles as teachers, researchers, students, administrators and policy-makers."--Sanjaya Mishra, Indian Journal of Open Learning (September 2009), Vol. 18, No. 3:167-168

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