Fisher Library has acquired a new book on eLearning. The details are below:
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.
Contents: Social networking as an educational tool — Design for a distributed environment — Selecting the media palette — The tools in practice — Constraints on course design — Evaluating course design and understanding its implications.
