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List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Student voices; Practicalities; Listening, reading and sense-making; Listening, reading and sense-making: a survival guide; Communicating and community; Communicating and community: a survival guide; Searching and researching; Searching and researching: a survival guide; Writing and presenting; Writing and presenting: a survival guide; Appendices; Index.
About the author
Janet Macdonald was Learning and Teaching Coordinator (elearning) for the Open University in Scotland. She has a doctorate in online course design and assessment and has published extensively on online course design, online tutoring and the use of online communities for professional development, including the popular textbook Blended Learning and Online Tutoring which has recently been published in a Second Edition. She has first hand experience of being both a distance student and tutor, and now provides staff development for others. Linda Creanor is Development Director for Professional Practice in the Caledonian Academy, a centre for educational development, research and scholarship at Glasgow Caledonian University. She has been involved in a range of national and European e-learning projects as a researcher, designer, evaluator and consultant, and has presented and published widely. She recently led a study on the learner experience of e-learning in which learners from across the UK described their approaches and attitudes towards using technology effectively for learning. Linda is a trustee and past president of the UK's Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Summary
Blended and online learning is widespread, with students from both campus based and distance universities and colleges facing the prospect of online study either for part or a whole of their course of study. This book provides a practical introduction for students who are contemplating or undertaking online study.
