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Learn to assess and assure the quality of university-level distance education classes! Now that many colleges and universities have embarked on significant distance education curricula, an overview of the state of the art is necessary. This valuable collection looks at distance education through a varied set of critical lenses to examine how distance education classrooms can affect students' attitudes and behaviors, the use ofand attitudes towardgroup projects in online courses, the effects that the use of technology has on the relationship between student and teacher, and a great deal more! Distance Education: Issues and Concerns: provides concrete recommendations for enhancing the distance...
Like a flash of lightning it came to him—the unathletic high school student Ted Kooser saw a future as a famous poet that promised everything: glory, immortality, a bohemian lifestyle (no more doing dishes, no more cleaning his room), and, particularly important to the lonely teenager, girls! Unlike most kids with a sudden ambition, Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and thirteenth poet laureate of the United States, made good on his dream. But glory was a long time coming, and along the way Kooser lived the life that has made his poetry what it is, as deeply grounded in family, work, and the natural world as it is attuned to the nuances of language. Just as so much of Kooser...
David Jennings was born about 1709 and is first recorded as a freeholder of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey. Includes Buffington, Davis, Moore, Walker and allied families.
The wide array of possibilities for interactive distance learning in today's schools can be daunting. This book will help educators make the transition from technology-based learning modalities and integrate elements of distance learning into the curriculum. With emphasis on Internet-based delivery formats, author Jan M. Yates presents the latest research and proven techniques for creating effective distance-learning opportunities that enhance student achievement. This guide is indispensable for anyone serious about distance learning. Included are an introduction, models and examples of distance learning, distance learning settings, discussions of support technologies and their uses, evaluation of interactive distance learning activities, a wealth of information about Web sites, vendors, and useful materials.
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How can teachers and librarians successfully incorporate the Internet into their school's curricula? Valauskas, 'Library Journal's' monthly computer book review columnist and also a columnist for the magazines 'Online' and 'Database, ' and Ertel, Director of Knowledge Systems for Apple Computer and founder of the Apple Library Users Group, compiled this guide to show how actual, successful Internet programs have been used in elementary, middle, and high schools to teach math, science, history, literature, music, and more. Included are such examples as classes in which students download French periodicals on the Net to practice language skills; look at weather data from a Gopher server, use t...
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