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This book is an essential guide to the use of technology in flexible and distance learning. The author argues that technology is not inherently good or bad for teaching – it’s the way it is used that matters. This update of the highly successful first edition provides criteria and guidelines for the design and delivery of effective teaching using modern learning technologies, and pays particular attention to the use of the Internet for distance and flexible educatio… More >>
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Interactivity is at the very heart of open and flexible learning, and is evident at all level of engagement, whether between fellow students, students and tutors or students and online learning materials.
By actively engaging a student with learning materials, interactions help to enhance learning by consolidating knowledge and providing context, encouraging reflection, questioning and a deeper understanding of a subject.
This book will be a groundbreaking st… More >>
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It’s seven-year-old Lillian’s first day at a new school, and she’s got butterflies in her tummy, but those butterflies turn into grasshoppers when she learns she has to bring something for Show and Tell at the end of the week! Lillian and her mother have just moved away from Lillian’s abusive father and into a family shelter, leaving behind all of their possessions. Every day that Lillian anxiously watches her classmates bring toys with which she has nothing… More >>