Learner Autonomy and CALL Environments (Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning).

This volume brings together two prominent strands in second language acquisition theory and research: the concept of learner autonomy and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Learner autonomy supports learners in becoming more reflective and communicative and in experimenting with language and language learning. CALL environments offer more and qualitatively different opportunities for learner autonomy than the traditional language classroom. This book offers researchers a starting point into researching learner autonomy in CALL contexts and offers teachers practical advice on chances and pitfalls in realizing learner autonomy goals in the CALL-supported classroom.

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Attitudes Toward Interactivity in a Graduate Distance Education Program: A Qualitative Analysis.

This book takes stock of learning theories in the European Union (EU) integration literature and assesses what insights the concept of ‘learning’ has added to our understanding of the European integration processes. Given the European integration dynamics since 2000 (including enlargement and new governance approaches and instruments), learning and learning-related theories have gained major EU significance. The book addresses the less noticed micro level patterns of behavioural change that deserve more visibility in the EU’s theoretical toolbox. It focuses on the conditions under which EU actors in various decision-making processes learn or do not learn.

In asking this question it raises issues about the EU’s nature. Do the EU conditions that favour learning outweigh the EU conditions that inhibit learning? Is the EU system too complex for learning processes to have a discernible, concrete impact? To assess the degree that the EU system and its member states learn, the authors selected for this volume are all explicitly comparative in their approach, and have been encouraged to look at differences across political systems. In doing so, the authors study how EU member states, EU institutions, and other groups and organisations pursue learning across the multi-level EU policy process.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

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Researching Student Learning: Approaches to Studying in Campus-Based and Distance Education (Society for Research into Higher Education).

How can one study the process of student learning in higher education? How does distance education differ from campus-based education? Do students taking courses by distance education approach their studies in a different way from students in campus-based institutions? The last 25 years have seen major developments in our understanding of how students set about the task of learning. This has led to a substantial body of ideas, theories and evidence that are concerned principally with studying in conventional, campus-based higher education. However, there is a largely separate literature concerned with approaches to study in distance education. Both bodies of literature have involved qualitative as well as quantitative research methods, and both have emerged from many different countries around the world. This book provides a critical evaluation of the literature and draws out its implications for both distance and conventional education. In short, the book provides a detail service of approaches to studying in distance education, and an integrated account of approaches to studying in both campus-based and distance education. John Richardson argues that there are no qualitative or quantitative differences between how students in campus-based and distance education approach their studies that cannot be attributed to differences in background variables such as age and previous educational experience, and thus that the lessons learned can be shared between the two separate bodies of literature. This book should be of interest to all concerned with learning and teaching in universities and colleges, whether in campus-based or distance institutions.

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This two-volume set, consisting of a Police Investigator’s manual and distance learning workbook, should prove useful material for the forthcoming “Initial Crime Investigators’ Development Programme”. Based on Blackstone’s “Police Manuals”, it draws on material from publications on crime, evidence and procedure, and general police duties, consisting of those sections that the National Crime and Operations Faculty has identified as essential material for the ICIDP for detectives (namely property offences, assaults and defences, sexual offences and evidence). The book is intended for trainee investigators preparing for the Initial Crime Investigators’ Development Programme (ICIDP) Examination.

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Open and Distance Learning for Nurses.
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: FT Pharmaceuticals.

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This practical guide is designed to help practitioners to support students studying on an open or distance learning course. It examines a range of strategies and issues in the increasingly important field of open learning.

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Brings together the best of Otto Peters’ work, most of which has not been previously available in English. Essays cover the historical development of distance education, from the 1950′s to education in post-industrial society.

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This practical guide is designed to help practitioners to support students studying on an open or distance learning course. It examines a range of strategies and issues in the increasingly important field of open learning.

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Contains a comprehensive and detailed view regarding the recent situation in the world of actual implementations in the area of flexible and distance learning. Focuses on training and retraining initiatives through the latest technologies and telecommunication in information that is unavailable elsewhere. The first section discusses leading edge distance and flexible education, training and retraining in Western Europe. The second part deals with current implementations and developments in North America, Eastern Europe, Japan, Africa, Australia and Latin America.

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This text brings together and summarizes the state of the distance learning field, so that trainers and HR professionals can easily stay abreast of the dramatic changes taking place. For large goverment, academic and corporate institutions, these technologies are often more cost-effective than using traditional classroom training events to train students or employees spread out over a state or across the country. However, few training professionals have experience in the field of distance learning and staying current with the continuous changes and new technologies is a daunting task. This text contains a selection of “the best of the best” articles from leading publications, including “The Journal of Distance Learning” “Training Magazine”, “Training and Development” and the “Multi-media Training Newsletter”.

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