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This edited work uses a flexible learning framework to explain the ways of creating a meaningful learning environment. This framework consists of eight factors - institutional, management,...

Nearly all early learning happens during play, and new technology has added video games to the list of ways children learn interaction and new concepts. Although video games are everywhere - on Web...

Globalized e-Learning Cultural Challenges explores the issues educators, administrators, and instructional designers face when transferring knowledge and skills to other cultures through e-learning...

Aiming to show how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment, this text describes academic work in the field of knowledge management. A particular focus...

Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property provides an up-to-date discussion of the main ethical issues that face today's information-intensive society, including the areas of intellectual...

Indigenous people around the world are becoming more interested in information technology because they see it as a way to preserve their traditional cultures for future generations as well as a way...

Information Technology and Social JusticeAuthor: Emma RooksbyPublisher: Information Science PublishingPublication Date: Oct 31, 2006Number of Pages: 312 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Technology has impacted how many teachers develop methods of instruction in their classroom settings. The Continuous Practice Improvement (CPI) professional development program introduces teachers to...

Offers guidance on how the traditional instructional design system has been used and how it must be changed to work within other systems. The environments and systems that affect the ADDIE (Analysis,...

With the onslaught of emergent technology in academia, libraries are privy to many innovative techniques to recognize and classify geospatial data-above and beyond the traditional map librarianship...

Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom examines topics critical to business, computer science, and information technology education, such as: school improvement and...

Since previously published intellectual property law and business research discusses institutional analyses without interdisciplinary insights by technical experts, and technical references tend to...

Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World is a collection of recent essays offering some fresh perspectives on the scope and future of intellectual property rights. The tripartite division of...

Internet-Based Workplace Communications: Industry and Academic Applications examines the different ways in which online media are becoming a part of and affecting educational and professional writing...

The combination of a techno-centric infrastructure, an electronically-driven business core, and the rise of computer-based instructional techniques creates a campus environment ripe for e-commerce...

Offers practical models of how learning objects are being applied in education, organisations, industry, and the military, this book includes diverse strategies used across these groups to apply...

Higher education institutions around the world are increasingly turning to e-learning as a way of dealing with growing and changing student populations. Education for the knowledge society means new...

Provides readers with an understanding of the field of e-learning, and advises them on the issues that are critical to the success of a meaningful e-learning environment. This book walks you through...

Managing Learning in Virtual Settings: The Role of Context discusses the basis for the development and management of learning contexts, with contributions from many diverse domains. It stresses the...

This work pulls together existing areas of existing psychological involvement, to suggest yet new areas and to present an initial, and coherent vision and framework for extending and humanizing the...

Providing an understanding of the infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies, this book contains practical advice for the design of appropriate technological...

This book features case studies detailing online applications and uses of assessment and measurement methodologies, systems, and practices across three broad educational or training areas--Provided...

Online learning is one of the most important topics in distance learning, but practitioners and researchers have experienced difficulty in defining the process. Online Assessment and Measurement:...

This book provides a view of the possibilities and challenges facing online educators and evaluators in the 21st century--Provided by publisher.Author: David D. WilliamsPublisher: Information Science...

Provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of online collaborative learning (also known as CSCL, computer-supported collaborative learning), particularly those working within a...

Online Education for Lifelong LearningAuthor: Yukiko InouePublisher: Information Science PublishingPublication Date: Feb 28, 2007Number of Pages: 350 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

The continued growth in general studies and liberal arts and science programs online has led to a rise in the number of students whose science learning experiences are web-based. However, little is...

Provides methods and tools to elicit and map organizational memory contents, based on the analysis and modelization of discourses through qualitative and quantitative techniques.Author: Luca...

An important aspect of managing human capital in the 21st century workplace is managing the interface between humans and information technology, particularly the World Wide Web. The Web has changed...

Provides an in-depth look at the emerging field of online research and the corresponding ethical dilemmas associated with it. Issues related to traditional research ethics such as autonomy or respect...