Virtual Learning and Higher Education /
Virtual Learning and Higher Education /
edited by David Seth Preston.
- 1 online resource.
- At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 8 .
- At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Preface / Frontierland: Exploring the Uses of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education / Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: A Developmental Framework far Teacher Training / The Virtual Seminar / Going From Distanee to Digital: Athabasca University's E-Learning Plan / Online Resouree Page: Using Technology to Enhanee Online Interactivity / Into the Unknown: Charting the Future of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education / Working and Learning Together: ICT-Supported Learning in Small Businesses / Strategie and Pedagogie Requirements for Virtual Learning in the Context of Widening Partieipation / Assessment for Real in Virtual Learning Environments - How Far Can We Go? / Looking Before Leaping: Issues In Virtual Higher Education / C.P. Snow Revisited: The Two Cultures of Faculty and Administration / Atatvistic Avatars: Ontology, Education and 'Virtual Worlds' / Virtual Values: The University in E-Crisis / Notes on Contributors / Index / David Seth Preston -- D.S. Preston -- David Seth Preston -- Mike Waring and Kate Boardman -- Melissa Lee Price and Andy Lapham -- Lynda R. Ross and Alan Davis -- Brent Muirhead -- David Seth Preston -- Craig Thomson -- Mark Stiles -- Mike Fuller -- David Seth Preston -- James Wood -- Adrian Bromage -- David Seth Preston -- David Seth Preston -- David Seth Preston.
It is clear that the Internet and other global information infrastructures provide a major challenge to Higher Education. Questions such as: the extent to which education should become 'virtual', the actual cost and value of such innovation and to what degree such education suits its stakeholders (e.g. students) are now discussed the world over. These issues formed the focus for a conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford in September 2002 and this book contains the most rounded and challenging papers from that event. The book is divided into three main parts which consist of the following themes within Higher Education: current practical and planned uses for Virtual Learning; the future 'Virtual' vision; and the large questions that remain unanswered behind 'Virtual Education'. The contributors range from the nerdy end of experimenters of futuristic innovative technologies via the practitioner middle of well-known organizers of existing virtual systems to the other extreme of the critical engagement of philosophers. This stimulating and important book is aimed at researchers of topics such as technology-driven Education, Philosophy, Innovation and Cultural Studies. It is also meant to appeal to anyone with interest in the impact that the technological virtual will have upon Higher Education in future.
9789401201056 9789042011298
10.1163/9789401201056 DOI
Internet in higher education--Congresses.
Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on--Congresses.
Distance education--Computer-assisted instruction--Congresses.
Educational technology--Congresses.
LB2395.7
378.00285
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Preface / Frontierland: Exploring the Uses of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education / Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: A Developmental Framework far Teacher Training / The Virtual Seminar / Going From Distanee to Digital: Athabasca University's E-Learning Plan / Online Resouree Page: Using Technology to Enhanee Online Interactivity / Into the Unknown: Charting the Future of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education / Working and Learning Together: ICT-Supported Learning in Small Businesses / Strategie and Pedagogie Requirements for Virtual Learning in the Context of Widening Partieipation / Assessment for Real in Virtual Learning Environments - How Far Can We Go? / Looking Before Leaping: Issues In Virtual Higher Education / C.P. Snow Revisited: The Two Cultures of Faculty and Administration / Atatvistic Avatars: Ontology, Education and 'Virtual Worlds' / Virtual Values: The University in E-Crisis / Notes on Contributors / Index / David Seth Preston -- D.S. Preston -- David Seth Preston -- Mike Waring and Kate Boardman -- Melissa Lee Price and Andy Lapham -- Lynda R. Ross and Alan Davis -- Brent Muirhead -- David Seth Preston -- Craig Thomson -- Mark Stiles -- Mike Fuller -- David Seth Preston -- James Wood -- Adrian Bromage -- David Seth Preston -- David Seth Preston -- David Seth Preston.
It is clear that the Internet and other global information infrastructures provide a major challenge to Higher Education. Questions such as: the extent to which education should become 'virtual', the actual cost and value of such innovation and to what degree such education suits its stakeholders (e.g. students) are now discussed the world over. These issues formed the focus for a conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford in September 2002 and this book contains the most rounded and challenging papers from that event. The book is divided into three main parts which consist of the following themes within Higher Education: current practical and planned uses for Virtual Learning; the future 'Virtual' vision; and the large questions that remain unanswered behind 'Virtual Education'. The contributors range from the nerdy end of experimenters of futuristic innovative technologies via the practitioner middle of well-known organizers of existing virtual systems to the other extreme of the critical engagement of philosophers. This stimulating and important book is aimed at researchers of topics such as technology-driven Education, Philosophy, Innovation and Cultural Studies. It is also meant to appeal to anyone with interest in the impact that the technological virtual will have upon Higher Education in future.
9789401201056 9789042011298
10.1163/9789401201056 DOI
Internet in higher education--Congresses.
Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on--Congresses.
Distance education--Computer-assisted instruction--Congresses.
Educational technology--Congresses.
LB2395.7
378.00285