Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning On-Line - Hardcover

Harasim, Linda M; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Teles, Lucio; Turoff, Murray

9780262082365: Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning On-Line

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262082365 ISBN 13: 9780262082365

Publisher: MIT Press, 1995

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies such as electronic mail, bulletin board services, computer conferencing systems, and the World Wide Web are having a profound effect on education. Learning Networks is a complete guide to the use of these new technologies at the primary, secondary, university, and adult education levels. Drawing on the authors' own considerable experience of teaching and learning online, it describes the learning networks that are available as well as new examples of learning networks that can be created. Part I provides a selective survey of the field: what are learning networks and who is using them, what kind of courses can be taught online, what approaches to teaching and learning are most successful online, what curriculum can best be supported by networking, and what kinds of teachers and learners benefit from this medium. Part II deals exhaustively with the design and implementation of learning networks as well as the roles of teachers and learners and gives a realistic assessment of potential pitfalls. In Part III the authors discuss CMC technologies as a paradigm for education in the next century.

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About the Author:

Linda Harasim is a Professor in the Department of Communications at Simon Fraser University.

Review:

[A] book that should be on the shelf of every educator, elementary school teachers as well as university professors, interested in exploring CMC technologies....Learning Networks is an important contribution to computer science, information sciences, and education.

―J. R. Miller, Information Processing and Management

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