Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications

ISBN 10: 1605663808 / ISBN 13: 9781605663807

Published by Information Science Reference, 2009

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• Title: Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications
• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605663808
• ISBN 13: 9781605663807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Hybrid learning is now the single-greatest trend in education today due to the numerous educational advantages when both traditional classroom learning and e-learning are implemented collectively. The Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications collects emerging research and pedagogies related to the convergence of teaching and learning methods. This significant Handbook of Research provides researchers, scholars, students, and professionals access to the latest knowledge related to hybrid learning, discovered and written by an international gathering of e-learning experts.

About the Author

Fu Lee Wang is the Head of Department of Business Administration at Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong. Prior to joining Caritas, he was a Lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He received B.Eng. and M.Phil. from the University of Hong Kong, MBA from Imperial College London, and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include electronic business, information systems and e-learning. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. He has published about 50 articles in journals and proceedings of international conferences, i.e., Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Information Processing Letters, IW3C, SIGIR, and more.

Joseph Fong is an editorial board member of International Journal of Web Information Systems. He is a fellow of Hong Kong Computer Society, the founder chairman of the [ Hong Kong Computer Society Database Special Interest Group], and the honorable founder chairman of [Hong Kong Web Society], and International Hybrid Learning Society. Fong had worked in the electronic data processing in US for 11 years, and came back to Hong Kong as an academician since 1988. His research interests are in database, data warehousing, data mining XML and Web-Based Learning. His above 100 publications include SCI Journals, Conferences, Patent (US), edited books, and an authored text book on "Information Systems Reengineering and Integration" 2nd edition by Springer in 2006. He had been a program manager of a M.Sc. of Staffordshire University hosted at City University of Hong Kong for a decade and teaches [Data warehousing and data mining], [ Data Engineering], [Database Systems ] and [Introduction to Database Systems ]including XML technology.

Reggie C. Kwan is the Professor and President of Caritas Institute of Higher Education. Before joining Caritas to build a Catholic university in Hong Kong, he was the Head of Computing and Mathematics at the Open University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was the Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Montana Tech of the University of Montana from mid-80 s to late 90 s. He has published six books and over 55 papers in the areas of e-learning.