e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook: Resources for Higher Education
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Overview
Student engagement with digital learning resources and online social networking are strong forces in education today. How can these resources best be utilized by educators and course designers in higher education? This book aims to provide the reader with enough background information to appreciate the value of social networking, especially for distributed education. Through highlighting the most relevant, interesting, and challenging aspects of e-Learning the book provides practical advice for using social networking tools in course design. This volume covers the following issues of course design using social networking: Key issues of social networking as an educational technique, Designing for a distributed environment, Strengths and weaknesses of delivering content in various formats: text, audio and video, Specific media: blogging, wikis, podcasting, webcasting, Constraints on course design, Implementation, evaluation, induction and training.Synopsis
Digital resources--from games to blogs to social networking--are strong forces in education today, but how can those tools be effectively utilized by educators and course designers in higher education? Filled with practical advice, the e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of online learning tools and offers strategies for using these resources in course design, highlighting some of the most relevant and challenging topics in e-learning today, including:
* using social networking for educational purposes
* designing for a distributed environment
* strengths and weaknesses of delivering content in various formats (text, audio, and video)
* potential constraints on course design
* implementation, evaluation, induction, and training
Illustrated by short, descriptive case studies, the e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook, Second Edition also directs the reader to useful resources that will enhance their course design. This helpful guide will be invaluable to all those involved in the design and delivery of online learning in higher education.
Editorials
From the Publisher
''It was refreshing to come across a book that focussed on cutting edge education.... This book has been well considered and has been set out in such a way as to be used either as a foundation in social technology and e learning or as a working tool"
- CPD Update
" This is a carefully crafted book that lucidly fulfills its major stated goal of reviewing the key issues of social networking as an educational technique" - The HEA Physical Sciences Centre 'Reviews'
"To me the book serves it purpose as a great resource for those involved in the social construction of knowledge.... It deserves to be consulted by course designers at any stage of planning, producing, offering and evaluating the courses in a distributed learning environment" - BJET