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The second edition of E-Learning in the 21st Century provides a coherent, comprehensive, and empirically-based framework for understanding e-learning in higher education. Garrison draws on his decades of experience and extensive research in the field to explore the technological, pedagogical, and organizational implications of e-learning. Most importantly, he provides practical models that educators can use to realize the full potential of e-learning. This book is unique in that it focuses less on the long list ever-evolving technologies and more on the search for an understanding of these technologies from an educational perspective.
The second edition has been fully revised and updated throughout and includes discussions of social media and mobile learning applications as well as other emerging technologies in today’s classrooms. This book is an invaluable resource for courses on e-learning in higher education as well as for researchers, practitioners and senior administrators looking for guidance on how to successfully adopt e-learning in their institutions.
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Dr. D. Randy Garrison is the Director of the Teaching & Learning Centre and a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. He is the author of eight books, including Blended Learning in Higher Education (2008) and An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era (2010). Dr. Garrison was the recipient of the 2009 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Because the work is research-based and driven by pedagogy rather than technology, this book should find its way onto the shelves of anyone interested in intelligent discourses about distributed elearning. Garrison and Anderson address the issue from a sociological and philosphical perspective as well as offering models of practice, avoiding case studies but clearly drawing on their experience as practitioners and researchers.
Their suggestion of the importance of teaching, cognitive and social "presence" is well developed and offers much in the way of reassurance to anyone anxious that the drivers for online teaching and learning within HE are about saving time and money!
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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A relatively short book that is certainly worth reading because it sums-up a particular way of thinking amongst higher education e-learning providers. But, be aware that much of what is written is based on opinion, not fact, and that the philosophical bias contained is only one way of approaching the subject.
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More responsive tertiary education [perhaps]
14 April 2004
Format:Hardcover
Perhaps it is not surprising that the authors of a book on e-learning are Canadian. Canada, like Australia, has had perennial problems with educating a population spread over vast distances. It is natural that Canada would have an intense interest in a means of providing remote higher education.
The authors argue that e-learning is not some mirage of the dot com boom. In this book, they explain that it can be a fundamentally disruptive technology. That if correctly implemented, it can empower a more economic and effective teaching of specialised material, irrespective of the actual subject of the material.
The application of e-learning to higher education is seen as better than for general primary or secondary education. There, the material is much the same across a nation, and traditional teaching methods are adequate. But for tertiary education, across an entire nation, there might be only limited demand for certain subjects, making it inefficient for every university to offer those.
They don't claim that there are exclusive pedagogies to be used in e-learning. Rather, that it lends itself to varied approaches, several of which can be effective.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent framework
23 Feb 2008
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The book delivers an excellent framework for the analysis of on-line educational activities. The COI - model is strong, concrete and well documented. The impact of this model for future developments is potentially high as the present developments on the web are still within range of its ambition.
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