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Summary
Summary
It is clear that the Internet and other global information infrastructures provide a major challenge to Higher Education. Questions such as: the extent to which education should become virtual', the actual cost and value of such innovation and to what degree such education suits its stakeholders (e.g. students) are now discussed the world over. These issues formed the focus for a conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford in September 2002 and this book contains the most rounded and challenging papers from that event. The book is divided into three main parts which consist of the following themes within Higher Education: current practical and planned uses for Virtual Learning; the future Virtual' vision; and the large questions that remain unanswered behind Virtual Education'.
Author Notes
Kate Boardman is a Learning Technologist in the University of Durham IT Service.
Adrian Bromage presently works at Coventry University's Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED)
Alan Davis has been Vice President Academic at Athabasca University since 1996
Mike Fuller is Senior Lecturer in Econometrics and Social Statistics at the Canterbury Business School of the University of Kent in the United Kingdom
Andy Lapham is currently a Principal Lecturer in the London College of Music and Media - a faculty of Thames Valley University, London (TVU)
Brent Muirhead is the area chair for the Master of Arts in education program in curriculum and technology for the University of Phoenix Online
David Seth Preston has degrees from the universities of London, Loughborough and Sheffield. His background is in applied Information Systems especially within engineering firms. He is author of over a hundred refereed papers and four books
Melissa Lee Price has over twenty years experience in the media industry. She received her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of South Carolina in 1993
Lynda Ross returned to Athabasca University in 2000 and since then has managed the Educational Media Development Department and is currently Manager of Special Projects
Mark Stiles is Professor of Technology-Supported Learning at Staffordshire University
Craig Thomson is an educationalist whose experience straddles a range of sectors, levels and national settings
Mike Waring is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Health at the University of Durham
James Wood, Professor and former Chair of Sociology at San Diego State University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Part I Frontierland: Exploring the Uses of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education | |
| Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: A Developmental Framework for Teacher Training | p. 1 |
| The Virtual Seminar | p. 15 |
| Going From Distance to Digital: Athabasca University's E-Learning Plan | p. 29 |
| Online Resource Page: Using Technology to Enhance Online Interactivity | p. 55 |
| Part II Into the Unknown: Charting the Future of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education | |
| Working and Learning Together: ICT-Supported Learning in Small Businesses | p. 73 |
| Strategic and Pedagogic Requirements for Virtual Learning in the Context of Widening Participation | p. 87 |
| Assessment for Real in Virtual Learning Environments - How Far Can We Go? | p. 107 |
| Part III Looking Before Leaping: Issues in Virtual Higher Education | |
| C.P. Snow Revisited: The Two Cultures of Faculty and Administration | p. 121 |
| Atatvistic Avatars: Ontology, Education and 'Virtual Worlds' | p. 133 |
| Virtual Values: The University in E-Crisis | p. 151 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 177 |
| Index | p. 181 |
