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Title Special issue : synchronous methods and applications in e-learning / guest editor Kinshuk
Published Bradford, England : Emerald Group Pub., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (129 pages)
Series Campus-wide information systems, the international journal of information and learning technology ; v. 23, no. 3
Campus-wide information systems ; v. 23, no. 3
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; The efficacy of online cooperative learning systems; Text-based MOOing in educational practice: experiences of disinhibition; Synchronous support and monitoring in web-based educational systems; Applying synchronous methods during the development of an online classroom-based simulation; Synchronous web-based communication using text as a means of enhancing discussion among school students; Successful e-courses: the role of synchronous communication and e-moderation via chat
Summary Recent rapid improvements in technology and the increasing bandwidth of Internet access in most parts of the world have led to an increasing popularity of synchronous solutions for instruction. But real-time instant interaction and possibility of non-verbal information transfer has led to a change in paradigm of how e-learning is being envisaged in its traditional sense. On the one hand, it lures academics to fall back to their traditional habits of face-to-face instructions and, on the other, it promises to provide the best of both worlds. Various new challenges are emerging from the use of s
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Subject Internet in education.
Computer networks.
Computer networks
Internet in education
Form Electronic book
Author Kinshuk, 1970-
ISBN 1846630509
9781846630507
9781846630514
1846630517