Toward the Virtual University
International Online Perspectives
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- Description
- Contents
This book aims to bring together the work of a number of online learning specialists from around the world, to offer the reader a global view of current and recent research and practice in electronic learning from a variety of disciplines and contexts. Some of the chapter authors indicate the likely directions e-learning may be headed in the next few years. In addition, this book is aimed at informing all those working within online learning and distance education of best practice. The content of this book will be of particular interest to university academics, researchers, college educators, K-12 teachers, education administrators and distance education students. It will also be useful as a text for those studying the management and delivery of distance education and e-learning, and indeed will be of interest to those working in all areas of education.
The core of our book, the section entitled Projects and Tools, consists of research reports originally presented at the Romanian Internet Learning Workshop (RILW), an annual international conference series held in Romania between 1997 and 2001, and described in the first chapter of the volume. These projects focus on the development of instructional concepts and tools for technology-based learning environments encompassing diverse fields and disciplines from Educational Science through Intercultural Education and Foreign Languages to Beam Physics.
Foreword by the Editors.
- Chapter 1. Five Years of the Romanian Internet Learning Workshop: Building an International Community of Experts; Mihai Jalobeanu, Susan English, and Nicolae Nistor.
- Part I. Overview and Theoretical Background
- Chapter 2. The Internet in Education: The Past, the Present and, Hopefully, the Future; Mihai Jalobeanu.
- Chapter 3. Learning on the Internet: Some Empirical Research; Hermann Astleitner.
- Chapter 4. Learning Competence for the Knowledge Society; Heinz Mandl and Ulrike Krause.
- Chapter 5. Web-Based Learning and Transactional Distance Theory; Steve Wheeler.
- Chapter 6. Changing to Online Learning: A Close-Up View with a Wide-Angle Lens; Susan English.
- Chapter 7. Human Behavior in the Online Subculture; Steve Wheeler and Nicolae Nistor.
- Part II. Projects and Tools
- Chapter 8. Online Learning and Security; Steven Furnell and Titus Karawni.
- Chapter 9. Scaffolding-by-Design as a Model for Online Learner Support; Koos Winnips.
- Chapter 10. Implementation of Online Learning at the University of Regensburg; Thomas Lerche and Hans Gruber.
- Chapter 11. A Didactical Concept for Virtual Seminars at the University of Munich; Nicolai Nistor.
- Chapter 12. Leaving the Ivory Tower: Using the Virtual Classroom to Improve Teacher Training; Beate Baltes.
- Chapter 13. Foreign Languages: Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning—A Model of In-Class Delivery; Uwe Matthias Richter.
- Chapter 14. Using Digital Technologies in Cultural Education; Kari Smith.
- Chapter 15. Beam Physics Online at the University of Michigan; Bela Erdelyi, Jess Hoefkes, Lars Diening, Kyoko Makino, and Martin Berz.
- Chapter 16. Student Knowledge Evaluation in Internet Environments; Norin Bola, Laura Frattini, and Fuitio Carvo.
- Chapter 17. Web Page Generation; Stefan Trausan-Matu.
- Part III. Conclusions and Visions
- Chapter 18. The Internet: The Ultimate Resource, or a Source of Frustration? William Lindsay.
- Chapter 19. Present and Future in Teaching and Learning Science by Information and Communication Technology; Mircea Rasu.
- Author Profiles.
- Index.