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Learning networks : a field guide to teaching and learning online / Linda Harasim [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585328048
  • 9780585328041
  • 0262082365
  • 9780262082365
  • 0262274914
  • 9780262274913
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Learning networks.DDC classification:
  • 371.3/34 20
LOC classification:
  • LB1028.43 .L43 1995eb
Other classification:
  • G434
Online resources:
Contents:
I. The field -- 1. Learning networks: An introduction -- 2. Networks for schools: Exemplars and experiences -- 3. Networks for higher education, training, and informal learning: Exemplars and experiences -- II. The guide -- 4. Designs for learning networks -- 5. Getting started: The implementation process -- 6. Teaching online -- 7. Learning online -- 8. Problems in paradise: Expect the best, prepare for the worst -- III. The future -- 9. New directions -- 10. Network learning: A paradigm for the twenty-first century -- 11. Epilogue: Email from the future.
Summary: Computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies such as electronic mail, bulletin board services, computer conferencing systems, and the World Wide Web are having a profound effect on education. Learning Networks is a complete guide to the use of these new technologies at the primary, secondary, university, and adult education levels. Drawing on the authors' own considerable experience of teaching and learning online, it describes the learning networks that are available as well as new examples of learning networks that can be created.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index.

Print version record.

I. The field -- 1. Learning networks: An introduction -- 2. Networks for schools: Exemplars and experiences -- 3. Networks for higher education, training, and informal learning: Exemplars and experiences -- II. The guide -- 4. Designs for learning networks -- 5. Getting started: The implementation process -- 6. Teaching online -- 7. Learning online -- 8. Problems in paradise: Expect the best, prepare for the worst -- III. The future -- 9. New directions -- 10. Network learning: A paradigm for the twenty-first century -- 11. Epilogue: Email from the future.

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies such as electronic mail, bulletin board services, computer conferencing systems, and the World Wide Web are having a profound effect on education. Learning Networks is a complete guide to the use of these new technologies at the primary, secondary, university, and adult education levels. Drawing on the authors' own considerable experience of teaching and learning online, it describes the learning networks that are available as well as new examples of learning networks that can be created.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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