Product Description: This definitive guide on how best to deliver e-learning materials clearly weighs the pros and cons of using different media in learning environments. Unlike books that just focus on good design or define teaching with technology as merely incoporating the internet and learning management systems, this much-anticipated new edition also discusses the relative roles of text, audio and video, and synchronous vs asynchronous...read more

Product Description: Contents: Introduction; 1 Truth Under the Veil; 2 Resembling Sins: Monstrous Births as Moralising Emblems; 3 The Divine Works of God; 4 A Farrago of Medical Curiosities; 5 Finding Fault with Nature: Some Causes of Monstrous Births; 6 From the Womb to the Tomb; 7 Retrospective Diagnosis; Conclusion; Appendix: Human Monstrous Births 1500-1700; Bibliography; Inde...read more

Product Description: Award-winning in its first edition, this book is an essential guide to the use of technology in flexible and distance learning, weighing up the pros and cons of different media. Fully updated, this second edition: examines criteria and guidelines for the design and delivery of effective teaching, using modern learning technologies focuses on the use of the Internet for distance and flexible education considers the design and use of emerging technologies such as web-based video-conferencing and speech recognition places emphasis on organisational and management issues and how these influence the effective use of technology gives attention to the integration of online teaching with campus-based face-to-face teaching...read more

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Product Description: This valuable guide to the selection and use of modern technologies for open and flexible learning argues that technology is not inherently good or bad for teaching--it is the way teachers and administrators use it that matters. Since knowing when or if to use technology is not just an issue of choosing the appropriate technology, Tony Bates presents a set of criteria which can help in the decision-making process: How accessible is the technology? What is the cost? What are the best teaching applications? How easy is it to use? What changes in the organization need to be made? How new is it? How quickly can courses be mounted with this technology? Applying the framework to technologies ranging from print, radio and telephone teaching to computer-based learning and multimedia, the book analyzes their strengths and weaknesses and offers a comprehensive cost analysis for each...read more

Product Description: This book, first published in 1984, provides a comprehensive review of the range of technology that was being used in distance education. Technological developments in word processing, video-disc and viewdata as well as computer-based learning had revolutionised the potential for distance education...read more