The Next Generation of Distance Education

1. Front Matter

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2. Unconstrained Learning: Principles for the Next Generation of Distance Education

   • Leslie Moller, Don Robison, Jason B. Huett

   Pages 1-19

3. The Future of Distance Learning Technology: It’s Not About the Technology and It’s Not About the Distance

   • J. Michael Spector

   Pages 21-29

4. Rethinking Design and Learning Processes in Distance Education

   • Andrew S. Gibbons, Michael E. Griffiths

   Pages 31-47

5. Interaction in Distance Education and Online Learning: Using Evidence and Theory to Improve Practice

   • Philip C. Abrami, Robert M. Bernard, Eva M. Bures, Eugene Borokhovski, Rana M. Tamim

   Pages 49-69

6. The Design Critique as a Model for Distributed Learning

   • Brad Hokanson

   Pages 71-83

7. The Effect of Delivery Method of Instructional Materials to Meet Learning Goals and Objectives in Online and Open Learning Environments

   • Jonathan O. McKeown, Sarah K. Howard

   Pages 85-96

8. Using the Community of Inquiry Framework to Inform Effective Instructional Design

   • Jennifer C. Richardson, J. Ben Arbaugh, Martha Cleveland-Innes, Philip Ice, Karen P. Swan, D. Randy Garrison

   Pages 97-125

9. Creating a Culture of Digital Collaborative in Online Learning

   • MaryFriend Shepard

   Pages 127-138

10. Comparing Formal, Non-formal, and Informal Online Learning Environments

    • Richard A. Schwier

    Pages 139-156

11. CyGaMEs: A Full-Service Instructional Design Model Harnessing Game-Based Technologies for Learning and Assessment

    • Debbie Denise Reese

    Pages 157-170

12. The Influence of Backchannel Communication on Cognitive Load

    • Jennifer A. Maddrell, Ginger S. Watson

    Pages 171-180

13. Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom: A Revised Model for Agents-Based Knowledge Management Systems

    • Rémi Wognin, France Henri, Olga Marino

    Pages 181-189

14. Collaborative Problem-Solving in Virtual Environments: Effect of Social Interaction, Social Presence, and Sociability on Critical Thinking

    • Rajashi Ghosh, Carolyn Rude-Parkins, Sharon A. Kerrick

    Pages 191-205

15. Needs Assessment: Developing an Effective Online P-6 Engineering Professional Development Program

    • Wei Liu, Ronald L. Carr, Johannes Strobel

    Pages 207-220

16. Higher Education and Postindustrial Society: New Ideas About Teaching, Learning, and Technology

    • Martha Cleveland-Innes, D. Randy Garrison

    Pages 221-233

17. An Analysis of Success and Failures: Focusing on Learner–Content Interactions for the Next Generation of Distance Education

    • Gary R. Morrison, Gary J. Anglin

    Pages 235-250

18. Back Matter

    Pages 251-266

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The world of education is being radically altered with the change  being driven by technology, openness, and unprecedented access to knowledge. Older correspondence-style methods of instructional delivery are passé and “classroom adapted to the web” approaches to learning are often ineffective and do little to harness the transformational potential of technology. E-Learning scenarios, mobile technologies, communication and information access, and personal learning environments are becoming mainstream and, as a result, control of the learning process is shifting away from institutions and into the hands of learners. This volumes promotes a forward-thinking agenda for research and scholarship that highlights new ideas, deep insights, and novel approaches to “unconstrained” learning.

• CyGames
• E-Learning scenarios
• Web 2.0
• distance education
• instructional delivery methods
• unconstrained learning

• Professor, Educational Tech., Walden University, Minneapolis, USA

  Leslie Moller

• , Assoc. Dean, Online Develop. & USG eCore, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA

  Jason B. Huett

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