Table of Contents

PART ONE: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
A Research Agenda for Online Teacher Professional Development - Chris Dede, Diane Ketelhut, Pameal Whitehouse, Lisa Breit and Erin McCloskey
The New, Modern Practice of Adult Education: Online Instruction in a Continuing Professional Education Setting - Brain Donavant
Understanding Interpersonal Interaction in an Online Professional Development Course - Rod Githens
Learning to Teach With the Web: Factors Influencing Teacher Education Faculty - Michael Grant
Responding to Technological Change: IT Skills and the Academic Teaching Profession - Phillip Haynes, Ken Ip, Patrick Saintas, Stan Stanier, Helen Palmer, Nicola Thomas, Gareth Reast, Joyce Barlow and Fred Maillardet
Effect of an Internet Based Professional Development Program on Teachers′ Assessment Literacy for All Students - Nan Huai, Jeffrey Braden, Jennifer White and Stephen Elliott
Pedagogical Implications of Online Discussion for Preservice Teacher Training - Yeonwook Im and Okhwa Lee
Integrating Technology into Field-Based Experiences: A Model That Fosters Change - Sharon Judge and Blanche O′Bannon
Appropriation, Mastery and Resistance to Technology in Early Childhood Preservice Teacher Education - James Laffey
Adoption of ICT by Teacher Educators: One-On-One Teaching - Kathryn Matthew, Rebecca Callaway, Catherine Letendre, Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez and Elizabeth Stephens
Learning to Teach With Technology: Authoring Practised Identities - Eli Ottesen
Supporting Change and Scholarship through Review of Online Resources in Professional Development Settings - Jason Ravitz and Christopher Hoadley
Can You Hear Me Now? Evaluation of an Online Wireless Technology to Provide Real-Time Feedback to Special Education Teachers-In-Training - Marcia Rock, Madeleine Gregg, Beth Thead, Sarah Acker, Robert Gable and Naomi Zigmond
Teaching Courses Online: A Review of the Research - Mary Tallent-Runnels, Julie Thomas, William Lan, Sandi Cooper, Terence Ahern, Shana Shaw and Xiaoming Liu
How Student Teachers Develop Their Understanding of Teaching Using ICT - Liz Taylor
Measuring the Learning of University Teachers Following Online Staff Development Courses: A Spanish Case Study - Luis Villar and Olga Alegre
PART TWO: DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES
Pedagogical Considerations for a Web-Based Tandem Language Learning Environment - Christine Appel and Tony Mullen
Digital Storytelling as a Signature Pedagogy for the New Humanities - Rina Benmayor
Building on Solid Foundations: Establishing Criteria for E-Learning Development - Eddie Blass and Ann Davis
Getting Up To Speed on the Information Highway: Integrating Web-Based Resources into Business Communication Pedagogy - Thomas Clark, Sherrie Human, Heidi Amshoff and Mike Sigg
Using Digital Videos to Enhance Teacher Preparation - Stacy Dymond and Johnell Bentz
E-Learning Pedagogy in the Third Millennium: The Need for Combining Social and Cognitive Constructivist Approaches - Uschi Felix
Forging a Learning Community? A Pragmatic Approach to Co-Operative Learning - Richard Hall
Cybertext Challenge: Teaching Literature In The Digital World - Raine Koskimaa
Going the Distance with Online Education - Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns Gaea Leinhardt
The Pedagogical Challenges to Collaborative Technologies - Diana Laurillard
Computer Mediated Conferencing for Management Learning at the Open University - Gilly Salmon
Integrating Technology into a Traditional Learning Environment: Reasons For and Risks of Success - Gunter Saunders and Fredrik Klemming
Management Classes As Online Learning Communities - Paul Shrivastava
Expanding Classroom Discussion with an Online Medium - David Slavit
Working With Difference in Online Collaborative Groups - Regina Smith
Cybercheats: Is Information and Communication Technology Fuelling Academic Dishonesty? - Attila Szabo and Jean Underwood
Rethinking Learner Support: The Challenge of Collaborative Online Learning - Mary Thorpe
Applying Distributed Learning Theory in Online Business Communication Courses - Kristin Walker
PART THREE: DIGITAL LITERACIES
Multimodality, Literacy and Texts: Developing a Discourse - Eve Bearne
Literacy in the Digital Age: Learning From Computer Games - Catherine Beavis, Thomas Apperley, Claire Bradford, Joanne O′Mara and Christopher Walsh
How to Become a Sophisticated User: A Two-Dimensional Approach to E-Literacy - Romam Brandtweiner, Elisabeth Donat and Johann Kerschbaum
Digital Inequality Differences in Young Adults′ Use of the Internet - Eszter Hargittai and Amanda Hinnant
A Review of School-Based Initiatives in Media Literacy Education - Renee Hobbs
Information, Knowledge and Learning: Some Issues Facing Epistemology and Education in a Digital Age - Colin Lankshear, Michael Peters and Michele Knobel
Children, Literacy and the UK National Grid for Learning - Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel
Children′s Use of the Internet: Reflections on the Emerging Research Agenda - Sonia Livingstone
Gradations in Digital Inclusion: Children, Young People and the Digital Divide - Sonia Livingstone and Ellen Helsper
A Review of the ′Digital Turn′ in the New Literacy Studies - Kathy Ann Mills
A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures - The New London Group
Teaching The Virtual Generation - Luigi Prosperio and Dennis Gioia
From Assimilation to Accommodation: A Developmental Framework for Integrating Digital Technologies into Literacy Research and Instruction - David Reinking, Linda Labbo and Michael McKenna
The Demographics, Motivations and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively-Multiuser Online Graphical Environments - Nick Yee
PART FOUR: NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Virtual Team Learning: An Introductory Study Team Exercise - Delwyn Clark and Jenny Gibb
Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds and Distance Learning: Two Case Studies of Active Worlds as a Medium for Distance Education - Michele Dickey
The Interactive Whiteboard: A Literature Survey - Derek Glover, David Miller, Doug Averis and Victor Door
The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects - Lucas Graves
Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age - Christine Greenhow, Beth Robelia and Joan Hughes
Online Chat Facilities as Pedagogic Tools - Graeme Kirkpatrick
Promoting Intercultural Exchanges with Blogs and Podcasting: A Study of Spanish-American Telecollaboration - Lina Lee
Creating a Successful International Distance-Learning Classroom - Craig Little, Larissa Titarenko and Mira Bergelson
The Slow Death of Formal Learning: A Polemic - David McGuire and Claire Gubbins
Computerized Games and Simulations in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Research - Mark Peterson
Why Virtual, Why Environments? Implementing Virtual Reality Concepts in Computer-Assisted Language Learning - Klaus Schwienhorst
Integrating Web 2.0 in E-Learning Environments: A Socio-Technical Approach - Marianna Sigala
Building a Shared Virtual Learning Culture: An International Classroom Partnership - Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Deborah Andrews
More than ′Just a Game′: The Implications for Schools of Children′s Computer Games Communities - Ben Williamson and Keri Facer
A Constructivist Mobile Learning Environment Supported By A Wireless Handheld Network - Gustavo Zurita and Miguel Nussbaum
PART FIVE: ONLINE ASSESSMENT
The Evaluation of Online Courses - Vincenza Benigno and Guglielmo Trentin
Designing and Assessing Online Learning in English Literary Studies - Benjamin Colbert, Rosie Miles, Francis Wilson and Hilary Weeks
Evaluation of an Online Tool for Assessing Competence in Achievement Testing - David Forbush, Donald Stenhoff, Eleazor Vasquez III, Matthew Furzland, Melina Alexander and Jared Stein
Student Online Self-Assessment: Structuring Individual-Level Learning in a New Venture Creation Course - Sherrie Human, Thomas Clark and Melissa Baucus
Developing Competent E-Learners: The Role of Assessment - Janet Macdonald
E-Portfolios: An Assessment Tool for Online Courses - Robin Mason, Chris Pegler and Martin Weller
The Experience of Collaborative Assessment in E-Learning - David McConnell
Assessing and Monitoring Student Progress in an E-Learning Personnel Preparation Environment - Edward Meyen, Ronald Aust, Yvonne Bui and Robert Isaacson
Virtual Communities and the Assessment of Online Marketing Education - James Peltier, William Drago and John Schibrowsky
Teaching Business Cases Online Through Discussion Boards: Strategies and Best Practices - Keith Rollag
Using the Online Environment in Assessment for Learning: A Case-Study of a Web-Based Course in Primary Care - Jill Russell, Lewis Elton, Deborah Swinglehurst and Trisha Greenhalgh
The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture - Lorrie Shepard
Learning-Teaching-Assessment Paradigms and the On-Line Classroom - Bruce Speck
Computer-Assisted Assessment: Suggested Guidelines for an Institutional Strategy - Derek Stephens, Joanna Bull and Winnie Wade
Assessment and Collaboration in Online Learning - Karen Swan, Jia Shen and Starr Roxanne Hiltz

About the Author

Michael Thomas teaches and researches in digital business communication and language learning Technologies and directs the MA TESOL in blended learning in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire. Until recently he was full professor specialising in digital technologies for language education at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business in Japan. His research interests are in ICT in education, task-based learning, digital literacies and digital technologies, and the philosophy of technology. His recent publications have examined the use of social media on communication and learning. He is editor of the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments and associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching. Since 2007 he has organized an international symposium series on digital technologies and education in Japan focusing on Web 2 applications and social media.

Reviews

′Online learning is growing rapidly as a discipline and in terms of its influence on education and training. Many activities that seemed impossible a decade ago - such as person to person online video - are now common place. The last 5 years have produced dramatic change in how individuals interact with each other and with information. This publication provides among the best theorizing, research, and implementation on online learning. Those who are new to technology in learning will find it a wonderful starting point. Those with extensive experience in online learning will find it to be an excellent foundation to revisit′ - George Siemens, Athabasca University, Canada