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E-book: The Impact of New Technologies on Distance Learning Students

04.02.2009 10:45

Este es un interesante E-book que trata sobre el impacto tecnológico de la educación en línea en nuestra sociedad contemporánea. El mismo es una antología de autores europeos destacados en los campos de la tecnología y la educación. El acceso al mismo es en formato de página Web, el cual puedes navegar a través de sus páginas utilizando los botones de harramientas. Localiza el botón PDF si deseas descargarlo en tu computadora personal. El propósito y la justificación del libro se resume en los siguientes párrafos:

This book "The impact of new technologies on distance learning students"addresses a crucial dimension of educational provision: the expenditure on educational technology of the 27 Ministries of Education in the European Union and of Ministries of Education and Higher Education throughout the world, for their schools, colleges and universities.

If it cannot be proved that there is an impact of technology on learning and if it cannon be proved that this impact is beneficial then this expenditure is without justification. As recently as 2005 the World Bank laimed ‘The positive impact of ICT use in education had not been proven. In general, and despite thousands of impact studies, the impact of ICT use on student achievement remains difficult to measure and open to much reasonable debate.’

The book takes a different approach to other studies in the field in that it concentrates on the impact of technology on learning in adult education, lifelong learning and distance education. In this context it has a special focus on distance education. Much previous work in the field has focused on the impact of technology on learning by children in schools.

The book has a matrix structure. One branch of the matrix is provided by studies of the five forms of distance education technologies used in the study: distance education systems electronic distance education (usually referred to as e- learning), synchronous e-learning the se of the World Wide Web on-campus and mobile learning. The other branch of the matrix is supplied by two studies of the impact of technology on learning by men and women and by younger and older learners.

This book was published with the assistance of the European Commission through its Leonardo da Vinci programme. The statistical appendices on which the book is based are found on the Impact of new technologies on distance learning students website at: www.ericsson.com/impact.

Los temas son los siguientes:

Capítulo 1. THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON EDUCATION. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Capítulo 2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND APPROACH

Capítulo 3. THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON STUDENTS AT OPEN AND DISTANCE UNIVERSITIES

Capítulo 4. THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN E-LEARNING

Capítulo 5. SYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING SYSTEMS

Capítulo 6. IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE USE OF THE WWW ON CAMPUS

Capítulo 7. ATTITUDES TOWARDS MOBILE LEARNING

Capítulo 8. IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON LEARNING FOR MEN AND WOMEN

Capítulo 9. YOUNGER AND OLDER LEARNERS AND TECHNOLOGY

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