Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies

Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies

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Release Date: May, 2009|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 354
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6
ISBN13: 9781605663586|ISBN10: 1605663581|EISBN13: 9781605663593
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Description:

The Internet has had a monumental impact upon higher education with the development of e-learning and virtual campus initiatives. This has provided significant opportunities in terms of enhanced access to courses, knowledge, learning experiences, and information for a wide range of different learners from across the world.

Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies provides cost effective and sustainable learning procedures vital to ensuring long term success for both teacher and student. This book provides the latest research and findings in relation to best practice examples and case studies across the globe.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Advancing e-learning policy and practice
  • Best practices in virtual campuses
  • Blending virtual campuses
  • E-learning policies
  • Online seminar as enacted practice
  • Pedagogy in e-learning
  • Reviewing traces of virtual campuses
  • Self-directed lifelong learning and e-learning
  • Small scale e-learning innovation
  • Virtual campus development
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The mission of this book is to disseminate knowledge, experiences and best practices relating to e-learning and virtual campus developments from across the world.

– Mark Stansfield, University of Paisley, UK
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Mark Stansfield (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of the West of Scotland. He has published numerous papers in areas relating to e-learning, games based e-learning and virtual campuses. Mark Stansfield also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals that include the International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Information Systems Education, ALT-J and the Journal of IT Education, as well as being an Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects. He is Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the European Commission co-financed project ‘Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses (PBP-VC)’.
Thomas Connolly is a Professor and Chair of the ICT in Education Research Group at the University of the West of Scotland and is Director of the Scottish Centre for Enabling Technologies and Director for the Centre of Excellence in Games-based Learning. His specialisms are online learning, games-based learning and database systems. He has published papers in a number of international journals as well as authoring the highly acclaimed books ‘Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management’, ‘Database Solutions’ and ‘Business Database Systems’, all published by Addison Wesley Longman. Professor Connolly also serves on the editorial boards of many international journals, as well as managing several large-scale externally funded research projects.
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LIST OF REVIEWERS

  • Gavin Baxter, University of the West of Scotland, UK
  • Elizabeth Boyle, University of the West of Scotland, UK
  • Antonio Cartelli, University of Cassino, Italy
  • Thomas Connolly, University of the West of Scotland, UK
  • David Edgar, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
  • Kevin Grant, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
  • Athanassios Jimoyiannis, University of Peloponnese, Greece
  • Hugo Magalhães, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, Portugal
  • Katherine Maillet, Institut National des Telecommunications, France
  • Andreas Meiszner, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, Portugal
  • Mark Stansfield, University of the West of Scotland, UK
  • Daune West, University of the West of Scotland, UK