Product Description: In the last few years, educators have become familiar with the concept of online education through the use of tools such as "Blackboard," "WebCT," and other online course delivery systems.Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom highlights the work of educators daring enough to teach in these new frontiers of education...read more

In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out. Whatever a student's age, situation, or lifestyle, everything needed for successfully completing an online class is right here in this book. Each chapter covers a specific element of online learning and provides the new online student with practical strategies and how-to information so that any student can go into an online classroom prepared to succeed. This book has strategies and tips that every online professor wants students to know before they sign up for an online class. Bowman has provided a reference tool for students to develop self-directed learning skills that will help them become secure and knowledgeable about technology, studying, communicating online, and getting work done on time.

Product Description: A volume in Research Methods in Educational Technology Series Editor Walter F. Heinecke, University of Virginia Overall we come away from this project with a renewed sense of the complexity of evaluating the implementation and impact of technology in teacher education...read more

Product Description: January 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most famous three minutes of television history. It was during half-time of the 1984 Super Bowl that Apple show cased its new Macintosh Computer in an avant-guard commercial. In the following three weeks sales of the new computer, in both the public and private sectors, took off leading some to note this occasion as the "true" start of the information age...read more

Product Description: This recently updated text provides today's graduate students and other interested readers with an introductory critical perspective on the past, present, and future of instructional technology.• Contains contributions from 39 distinguished national and international scholars in instructional design and technology• Provides 15 new chapters not found in the previous editio...read more