Overview
- Includes both types of VLE, digital and virtual, in order to describe the wide landscape of possibilities for discussing, conceptualizing, creating and inquiring into VLEs
- Approximately 60 authors from around the world are involved in the handbook, doing critical work documenting, creating, researching, teaching and living in, on or about virtual learning environments
- The international thrust is important: although much of the early work has been done in North America, many of the most exciting developments are happening about the globe
- Part of the Springer International Handbooks Education Series
Part of the book series: Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE, volume 14)
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Table of contents (63 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments
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Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management
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About this book
Three issues are explored and used as organizers for The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. First, a distinction is made between virtual learning and learning virtually. Second, since the focus is on learning, an educational framework is developed as a means of bringing coherence to the available literature. Third, learning is defined broadly as a process of knowledge creation for transforming experience to reflect different facets of "the curriculum of life".
The Handbook 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. A variety of chapters representing different academic and professional fields are included. These chapters cover topics ranging from 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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments
Editors: Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Jeremy Hunsinger, Peter Trifonas
Series Title: Springer International Handbooks of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3803-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3802-0Published: 21 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0457-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3803-7Published: 24 November 2007
Series ISSN: 2197-1951
Series E-ISSN: 2197-196X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 1615
Topics: Educational Technology, Computers and Education, Learning & Instruction, IT in Business