文档介绍：Key Issues
in e-Learning:
Research and Practice
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Key Issues
in e-Learning:
Research and
Practice
Norbert Pachler
and Caroline Daly
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ISBN: 978-1-8470-6360-1 (paperback)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pachler, Norbert.
Key issues in e-learning : research and practice / Norbert Pachler and Caroline
Daly.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84706-358-8 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-84706-360-1 (pbk.) 1.
in education. 2. Information technology. 3. puter systems. 4.
World Wide Web. I. Daly, Caroline. II. Title.
2011
’44678--dc22
2010029086
Typeset by Free Range Book Design & Production
Printed and bound in India
Contents
Figures and Tables vii
Introduction 1
1 The “e” in e-Learning 11
What do we mean by “e-learning”? 11
What is learning? 17
Towards a theory of/for e-learning 18
Policy as a driver for e-