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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 the various factors critical to developing, evaluating and implementing e-learning.

This text should be of interest to those responsible for the management of major change within organizations, and provides the theories and values that should be adhered to in order to achieve that change successfully and effectively.

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. Most e-learning courses have been designed in Western cultures, but the largest and fastest-growing consumer groups live in Eastern cultures. Globalized e-Learning Cultural Challenges presents a broad perspective of culture and e-learning issues, r...

Providing empirical evidence for the power of measuring value in the context of e-learning systems, this book offers a set of benchmarking tools, such as the Value-Satisfaction grids and LeVIS index, to help administrators of e-learning programs realize the key effective characteristics of their program.

Provides web content management solutions through case studies. It contains successful database-to-web applications employed in academic libraries. The applications cover examples from database-driven web development, local web content management systems, systems for distributing content management responsibilities, and dynamic content delivery.

Showcases some of the best digital library practices from organizations in the Asia Pacific. Particular emphasis has been placed on the design, use and usability of digital libraries. Related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues surrounding digital libraries are examined.

While situated and constructivist theory has generated useful guidelines for the foundations of authentic learning environments, few concrete examples exist.

Walks readers through the various factors important to developing, evaluating and implementing an open, flexible and distributed learning environment. This book is designed as a quick checklist for e-learning. It contains many practical items that the reader can use as review criteria to check if e-learning modules, courses and programs provide the level of services that learners should expect.

Instructors at universities face many of the same concerns. They have to prepare and organize their courses, teach those courses and provide assignments, assess the learning of the students, and then evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching style. Even though these experiences are common, learning environments in higher education are increasingly diverse, and this diversity impacts every aspect of the institution.Technology and Diversity i...

Information resource management is too often seen as a domain dominated by technology, or, at best, one in which human considerations are secondary to and dependent on technological systems. Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements of Information Systems brings together chapters from Europe, Australasia, Canada and the Americas, all drawn together by the common theme of the book. It will present information management not as technology inf...

Approached not only from the technical side, but the business and legal sides as well, this book discusses digital watermarking as it relates to many areas of digital media. Broad in its approach, it provides a comprehensive for students, artists, composers, lawyers, and publishers.

This overview of standards, practices and possibilities of course management systems in higher education focuses on current knowledge and the history of the CMS, while also discussing innovative practices in CMS instructional design that have been informed by learning theory and intentional pedagogy.

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 trends. While many books on the topic of knowledge management (KM) focus on functional issues relating to implementation of KM techniques, Knowledge Management in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis addresses the social aspects of KM that are large...

The Information Society that we live in today is largely driven by the products and services that either contain software as a core element, or are themselves software.

Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies sheds light on the status of diversity in the field of IT education. It identifies a wide range of problems that educators face on a daily basis, and gives practical, applicable solutions, mainly by showcasing successful and replicable examples. The chapters in Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies present research and introspection on rac...

What is mind?" "Can we build synthetic or artificial minds?". This collection presents a diverse overview of the development of artificial minds is as the 21st century begins. It includes contributions from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and artificial intelligence.

This textbook fulfills a primary need for a sophisticated, integrated yet practical resource for professionals involved in distance education. It is both theoretically grounded yet broadly appealing and accessible - an excellent example of how 'one-size' can fit both the professor and the practitioner." Dr. Janet Poley, CEO, ADEC, "Dooley, Linder, and Dooley have composed an elegant text on the design and management of distance training suitab...

Despite the considerable, growing interest in online education, most studies have focused only on the student's perspective. Merely a handful of studies have attempted to address the teacher's perspectives and little has been published on the online teaching experience itself.

Presents readers with a view of technology literacy in a learning environment. While word processing skills are important, the development of technology skills covers the areas of presentation software, storage, human interaction, and virtual reality.

Learning Objects for Instruction shows how practical models of learning objects solutions are being applied in education, organizations, industry, and the military. It includes diverse strategies used across these groups to apply learning objects -- from the use of firmly-grounded theoretical contexts to practical tool-based solutions. The reader will find a thorough history, solid models and real-world practices for using learning objects for...