Innovation in Open and Distance Learning: Successful Development of Online and Web-based Learning

by Lockwood; Fred

• ISBN13: 9780749434762
• ISBN10: 0749434767
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136362279
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

A text containing contributions from world leaders in Web-based teaching, offering stimulating appraisals of the strategies and processes for managing change in education, specifically as regards open and distance education and other popular innovations. For all of those involved in contemporary learning. Softcover, hardcover also available.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	v
Series editor's foreword	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Innovation in distributed learning: creating the environment	1	(14)
Fred Lockwood
Innovation in open and distance learning: some lessons from experience and research	15	(12)
Bemadette Robinson
The influence of teacher beliefs on flexible learning innovation in traditional university settings	27	(11)
Edward Peter Errington
Promoting innovation and change in a 'traditional' university setting	38	(13)
Claire McLachlan-Smith
Cathy Gunn
Making a virtue of necessity - a low-cost, comprehensive online teaching and learning environment	51	(12)
Bruce King
Experimenting in Lotus Learning Space	63	(13)
Sheila Tyler
Mike Green
Claire Simpson
Generice structures for online teaching and learning	76	(12)
Lindsay Hewson
Chris Hughes
Selecting an integrated electronic learning environment	88	(12)
Alistair Inglis
Flexible toolboxes: a solution for developing online resources?	100	(11)
Ron Oliver
Stephen Towers
Peter Skippington
Yvonne Brunetto
Rid Farr-Wharton
Anne Gooley
Lifelong learning: generating new learning opportunities	111	(11)
Anne Gooley
Peter Skippingtion
Stephen Towers
Campus re-engineering	122	(11)
Stephen Brown
Student recruitment and retention in a self-financing university	133	(15)
Danny S N Wong
Todd C Y Ng
Using networking tools to support online learning	148	(12)
Ron Oliver
Catherine McLoughlin
Mentoring in open and distance learning	160	(12)
Chris Morgan
Andre Smit
Changing the pattern: towards flexible learning, learner support and mentoring	172	(7)
Santosh Panda
Tapan Jena
Innovations in online assessment	179	(10)
Christ Morgan
Meg O'Reilly
VESOL: cost-effective video production to support distance learners	189	(12)
Patrick McGhee
Christopher O'Hagan
Supporting effective reading of pictorial materials in visually oriented learning environments	201	(12)
Ric Lowe
Professional development in distance education - a successful experiment and future directions	213	(11)
Ulrich Bernath
Eugene Rubin
Index	224