Open Learning, Home Learning, Distance Education

Bildung in the Digital Age explores the challenges and potentials of digitalization for educational theory and practice and identifies how the peda...

This practical guide for college and university instructors explains how to design and prepare your courses to be adaptable for a full range of lea...

Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory brings together the innovations of two previously divided processes — learnin...

Motivational and social aspects as interactions among teachers and students are essential for a successful educational process in an open distance ...

Tools such as Blackboard and Google Classroom have seen wide-scale adoption and standardized implementation in colleges and universities. So why is...

Recognizing new opportunities and challenges brought about by technological and social change, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume explor...

Tools such as Blackboard and Google Classroom have seen wide-scale adoption and standardized implementation in colleges and universities. So why is...

Curriculum Planning with Design Language provides a streamlined, adaptable framework for using visual design terminology to conceptualize instructi...

Networked by Design brings together work from leading international scholars in the learning sciences that applies social network theory to teacher...

Networked by Design brings together work from leading international scholars in the learning sciences that applies social network theory to teacher...

This edited collection helps those teaching religion in higher education utilize technology to increase student learning both inside and outside of...

This volume explores unschooling as a growing phenomenon within the broader field of home education and considers the unique position of parents wh...

Blended Basic Language Courses: Design, Pedagogy, and Implementation examines lower-division blended courses in fifty-two second language programs ...

This book provides state-of-the-art contemporary research insights into key applications and processes in open world learning. Open world learning ...

Challenging the current understandings of equity and social justice in the field of online education, The Hidden Curriculum of Online Learning anal...

Originally published in 1988. This book provides an overview of women’s experience, access and needs in distance education. It includes contributio...

The Emotionally Intelligent Online Tutor foregrounds the tutor within online and blended learning environments, and focusses on desirable skills, q...

Digital Teaching for Linguistics re-imagines the teaching of linguistics in a digital environment. It provides both an introduction to digital peda...

Online Teaching: Tools and Techniques to Achieve Success with Learners will provide the online teacher with essential strategies to successfully de...

Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financ...

Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America: Little Platoons explores the idea of hybrid homeschools, where students attend a formal school setting for ...

Challenging the current understandings of equity and social justice in the field of online education, The Hidden Curriculum of Online Learning anal...

This book explores issues related to people, policy, and places of teaching and learning resulting from the trend towards dual and multi-mode provi...

Today’s secondary virtual teachers are tasked with designing and implementing effective literacy instructional approaches for adolescent online lea...

This book investigates the intersection of gender and distance education from a feminist perspective and explores their contemporary innovative int...

Streamlined ID presents a focused and generalizable approach to instructional design and development – one that addresses the needs of ID novices a...

Online learning has been one of the fastest growing areas of educational technology over the past few decades. With a rise of new online colleges a...

Digital Learning in Motion provides a theoretical analysis of learning and related learning media in society. The book explores how changing media ...

Learning Engineering for Online Education is a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of learning engineering, a form of educational optimiza...

The building of communities outside of the traditional brick-and-mortar base of a school or university is at a significant point in time; virtual w...

Learning Analytics in Higher Education provides a foundational understanding of how learning analytics is defined, what barriers and opportunities ...

Originally published in 1982 this volume provides nine case studies of particular distance teaching universities in Canada, China, Cost Rica, Germa...

The book presents a comprehensive account of research and development activities in open, ditance and flexible learning from acknowledged experts f...

Out-of-school learning spans varied formal and informal contexts and is hugely important for the lives of children. The need for time, flexibility,...

Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory brings together the innovations of two previously divided processes — learnin...

This book is an introduction to the issues and practicalities of using multimedia in classrooms - both primary and secondary, and across a range of...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of explainable learner models, presenting theoretical foundations and practical applications in the contex...

Originally published in 1982 this volume provides nine case studies of particular distance teaching universities in Canada, China, Cost Rica, Germa...

Designing Socially Dynamic Digital Learning is a practical guide to the creation of online and blended coursework and learning environments that fo...

This book provides an introduction into social science pedagogy in India. It delves into the interrelationships between society, social relationshi...

The wide-ranging disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic altered the experiences of place, technology, time, and school for students. This book explor...

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships ...

This edited volume explores the educational reforms and challenges in higher education in the Gulf countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.Featuring...

This book examines four distinct areas of education that suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asian and African regions, and tackles th...

This timely book presents the latest scholarly research on the integration of Information Communications Technology (ICT) for enhanced STEM educati...

Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents a path from an educational problem to a solution in a way that students, design practitioners, and researche...

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships ...

This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning. It serves to provid...