This book explores Virtual Learning Environments, and their relationships with real life and virtual worlds. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, and includes case studies.
This book explores Virtual Learning Environments, and their relationships with real life and virtual worlds. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, and includes case studies.
The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds. The book is divided into four sections: Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments; Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management; Out-of-School Learning Environments; and Challenges for Virtual Learning Environments. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, case studies from practical and research settings, as well as several provocative "classics" originally published in other settings.
Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments.- Rethinking the Virtual.-
A History of E-learning: Shift Happened.- Towards Philosophy of Technology in
Education: Mapping the Field.- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and
Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century.- Teaching and Transformation:
Donna Haraways A Manifesto for Cyborgs and Its Influence in
Computer-Supported Composition Classrooms.- The Political Economy of the
Internet: Contesting Capitalism, the Spirit of Informationalism, and Virtual
Learning Environments.- The Influence of ASCII on the Construction of
Internet-Based Knowledge.- Interaction, Collusion, and the HumanMachine
Interface.- Technological Transformation, Multiple Literacies, and the
Re-visioning of Education.- Cyberpedagogy.- Re-situating Constructionism.-
Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management.- Realizing the
Internets Educational Potential.- Virtual Schools: Reflections on Key
Issues.- Time, Space, and Virtuality: The Role of Virtual Learning
Environments in Time and Spatial Structuring.- Motivational Perspectives on
Students Responses to Learning in Virtual Learning Environments.- User
Adaptation in Supporting Exploration Tasks in Virtual Learning Environments.-
Collaborative Text-Based Virtual Learning Environments.- Designing Virtual
Learning Environments for Academic Language Development.- Inclusive
E-learning.- Displacing StudentTeacher Equilibrium in Virtual Learning
Environments.- Rural South African Teachers Move Home in an Online
Ecology.- Virtual Communities of Practice.- Increasing the Democratic Value
of Research through Professional Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs).-
Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education Down Under.- Technology
and Culture in OnlineEducation: Critical Reflections on a Decade of Distance
Learning.- Global Perspective on Political Definitions of E-learning:
Commonalities and Differences in National Educational Technology Strategy
Discourses.- An Overview of Virtual Learning Environments in the
Asia-Pacific: Provisos, Issues, and Tensions.- Global Online Education.-
Global Virtual Organizations for Online Educator Empowerment.- An Online
Journal as a Virtual Learning Environment: The Case of the Teachers College
Record.- Professional Development & Knowledge Management via Virtual Spaces.-
Out-Of-School Virtual Learning Environments.- Cemeteries, Oak Trees, and
Black and White Cows: Newcomers Understandings of the Networked World.- The
eLibrary and Learning.- Beyond MuseumWalls: An Exploration of the Origins and
Futures of Web-Based, Museum Education Outreach.- Genealogical Education:
Finding Internet-Based Educational Content for Hobbyist Genealogists.-
Downtime on the Net: The Rise of Virtual Leisure Industries.- Education,
Gaming, and Serious Play.- E-learning Environments for Health Care:
Advantages, Risks, and Implications.- E-Democracy: Media-Liminal Space in the
Era of Age Compression.- SonicMemorial.orgThe Virtual Memorial as a Vehicle
for Rethinking Virtual Learning Environments.- Why dont We Trade Places :
Some Issues Relevant for the Analysis of Diasporic Web Communities as
Learning Spaces.- Exploring the Production of Race Through Virtual Learning
Environments.- Engaging the Disney Effect: The Cultural Production of
Escapism and Utopia in Media.- A SmallWorld After All: L. M. Montgomerys
Imagined Avonlea as Virtual Landscape.- Slash Fiction/Fanfiction.- A Critical
Eye for the Queer Text: Reading and Writing Slash Fiction on (the) Line.-
Challenges for VirtualLearning Environments.- Chromosoft Mirrors.- Net:
Geography Fieldwork Frequently Asked Questions.- Hacktivism: The How and Why
of Activism for the Digital Age.- Weblogs and Collaborative Web Publishing as
Learning Spaces.- Procedural Discourse Networks:Weblogs, Self-organizations
and Successive Models for Academic Peer Review.- Wikis: Collaborative Virtual
Learning Environments.- Partying Like its 1999: On the Napsterization of
Cultural Artifacts Via Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Virtual Harlem as a
Collaborative Learning Environment: A Project of the University of Illinois
at Chicagos Electronic Visualization Lab.- Video-as-Data and Digital Video
Manipulation Techniques for Transforming Learning Sciences Research,
Education, and Other Cultural Practices.- ePresence Interactive Media and
Webforum 2001: An Accidental Case Study on the Use of Webcasting as a VLE for
Early Child Development.- Networked Scholarship.- Analysis of Log File Data
to Understand Behavior and Learning in an Online Community.- Reconstructing
the Fables:Women on the Educational Cyberfrontier.- (Inorganic) Community
Design Models and the Place of (In)appropriate Technology in International
DevelopmentWhat if More Than Half the World Wants Internet Access?.-
Broadband Technologies, Techno-Optimism and the Hopeful Citizen.- The
Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion.- Learning by Being: Thirty Years of
Cyborg Existemology.
