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Introducing the latest release from IGI Global:
WEB 2.0-BASED E-LEARNING: APPLYING SOCIAL INFORMATICS FOR TERTIARY TEACHING
ISBN: 978-1-60566-294-7; 483 pp; July 2010
Published under the imprint Information Science Reference
(formerly Idea Group Reference)
Edited by:
Mark J. W. Lee, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Catherine McLoughlin, Australian Catholic University, Australia
DESCRIPTION
Educational communities today are rapidly increasing their interest in Web 2.0 and e-learning advancements for the enhancement of teaching practices.
Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching provides a useful and valuable reference to the latest advances in the area of educational technology and e-learning. This innovative book offers an excellent resource for any practitioner, researcher, or academician with an interest in the use of the Web for providing meaningful learning experiences.
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"this collection of well-thought-out responses should prove an invaluable starting point for the effective application of new social learning technologies to teaching and learning in higher education. ... Mark and Catherine have edited a collection that should challenge us to re-examine our pedagogies, our notions of who is in control, our notions of where and how learning occurs, and most importantly, our notions of fun, play, and creativity in the endeavor."
- Professor John G. Hedberg, Millennium Innovations Chair of ICT & Education and Head, Department of Education, Macquarie University, Australia
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TOPICS COVERED
- Web 2.0, social software and their implications for e-learning
- Learner-generated contexts
- Students' perspectives on personal and distributed learning environments
- Personal knowledge management
- University students' self-motivated blogging
- Wikis in teacher training and foreign language learning
- Mobile 2.0
- Podcasting in distance learning
- Social networking in tertiary education
- Digital natives and the Net Generation
- Web 2.0 and assessment
- Web 2.0 and professional development of academic staff
- Beyond Web 2.0: Web 3.0
For more information about
Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching,
and to view the Table of Contents, go to
http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=40272 . On this site you will also be able to read the full text of the Preface of the book, which provides an introduction and thematic overview of the various chapters. You can also download the first chapter of the publication for free from the site.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Mark J. W. Lee is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the School of Education at Charles Sturt University. He concurrently holds Adjunct Senior Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow appointments with the Distance Education Hub (DE Hub) research institute at the University of New England and the Graduate School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Ballarat, respectively. Previously, he worked in a variety of teaching, instructional design, and managerial roles within the private vocational education and higher education sectors. Mark has published extensively in the areas of educational technology, e-learning, and innovative pedagogy in tertiary education, with over 50 refereed publications to his name. He is the immediate past Chair of the New South Wales Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society, a former director of the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (ibstpi), and a former executive committee member of the Open and Learning Distance Association of Australasia (ODLAA). Presently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning, in addition to being on the editorial boards of several other highly reputable international journals. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Australian Computer Society (ACS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
Catherine McLoughlin is an Associate Professor with the School of Education at the Australian Catholic University, Canberra, where she formerly served as Head of School. She also is the coordinator of the Australian Capital Territory branch of the Research Centre for Science, Information Technology and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR). With over 20 years' experience in higher education in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Australia, Catherine has experience and expertise in a variety of educational settings, with diverse students and across a wide range of cultural contexts. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), with oversight for the Society's research strategies and initiatives, and Editor of ASCILITE's official journal, the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Last but not least, Catherine is an editorial board member of a number of leading journals, including the British Journal of Educational Technology.
CONTRIBUTORS
Jon Akass, Media Citizens Ltd, UK
Cameron Barnes, University of New England, Australia
Tony Bates, Tony Bates Associates, Canada
Maria Elisabetta Cigognini, University of Florence, Italy
Wilma Clark, Institute of Education, UK
Lisa Cluett, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Gráinne Conole, The Open University, UK
John Cook, London Metropolitan University, UK
Matt Crosslin, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Nada Dabbagh, George Mason University, USA
Peter Day, University of Brighton, UK
Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
Peter Duffy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Nigel Ecclesfield, Becta, UK
Palitha Edirisingha, University of Leicester, UK
Henk Eijkman, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
Idoia Elola, Texas Tech University, USA
Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University, USA
Fred Garnett, Institute of Education, UK
Tom Hamilton, University of Sussex, UK
Henk Huijser, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Chris Jones, The Open University, UK
Lucinda Kerawalla, The Open University, UK
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, The Open University, UK
Mark J. W. Lee, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Rosemary Luckin, Institute of Education, UK
Catherine McLoughlin, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Shailey Minocha, The Open University, UK
Ana Oskoz, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Kai Pata, Tallinn University, Estonia
Maria Chiara Pettenati, University of Florence, Italy
John Pettit, The Open University, UK
Rick Reo, George Mason University, USA
Judy Robertson, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Thomas Ryberg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Michael Sankey, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Judy Skene, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Kairit Tammets, Tallinn University, Estonia
Belinda Tynan, University of New England, Australia
Terje Väljataga, Tampere Technical University, Finland and Tallinn University, Estonia
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, UK
Denise Whitelock, The Open University, UK
Andrew Whitworth, University of Manchester, UK
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To view the full contents of this publication, check for Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching in your institution's library. If you library does not currently own this title, please consider recommending it to your librarian.
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