The E-Learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning [Hardcover]

Saul Carliner (Author), Patti Shank (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0787978310 | ISBN-13: 978-0787978310 | Publication Date: April 25, 2008 | Edition: 1

The e-Learning Handbook provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world’s foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll; Brent Wilson Lee Christopher; William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, and Jane Bozarth; Pat Brogan; Patrick Parrish; Marc J. Rosenberg and Steve Forman; Pat McGee; Philip C. Abrami, Gretchen Lowerison, Roger Cote, and Marie-Claude Lavoie; Thomas C. Reeves, Jan Herrington, and Ron Oliver; and Patrick Lambe. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the technological, design, economic, evaluation, research, economic, and philosophical issues underlying e-learning. Each chapter includes a chart that summarizes the key take-away points, contains questions that are useful for guiding discussions, and offers suggestions of related links, books, papers, reports, and articles.

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The e-Learning Handbook

The e-Learning Handbook provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world's foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll, Brent Wilson, Lee Christopher, William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, Jane Bozarth, Pat Brogan, Patrick Parrish, Marc J. Rosenberg, Steve Forman, Pat McGee, M. David Merrill, Philip C. Abrami, Gretchen Lowerison, Roger C?té, Marie-Claude Lavoie, Thomas C. Reeves, Jan Herrington, Ron Oliver, and Patrick Lambe. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the technological, design, economic, evaluation, research, economic, and philosophical issues underlying e-learning.?Each chapter includes a chart that summarizes the key take-away points, contains questions that are useful for guiding discussions, and offers suggestions of related links, books, papers, reports, and articles.

The e-Learning Handbook explores a range of topics such as the wide difference between the promised and actual uses of e-learning in industry and academe, the struggle to implement standards, the problems with learning objects, the drabness of actual e-learning courses, the problems with current instructional design models for e-learning, and the limitations of current methods for researching and evaluating e-learning. Each of the book's six parts, examines e-learning from a different perspective, including technology, design, theory and research, and economics.

The e-Learning Handbook is a timely reference for all e-learning stakeholders and decision makers in for-profit, non-profit, governmental, and educational settings, and makes an excellent text for an advanced course analyzing e-learning.

About the Author

Saul Carliner, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the graduate program in educational technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Among his numerous books is Advanced Web-Based Training Strategies from Pfeiffer.

Patti Shank, Ph.D., is the president of Learning Peaks LLC, an internationally known instructional design and instructional technology consulting firm. She is the editor of The Online Learning Idea Book and the coauthor of Making Sense of Online Learning, both from Pfeiffer.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (April 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787978310
• ISBN-13: 978-0787978310
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Saul Carliner is an associate professor with the Graduate Program in Educational Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. His research interests include emerging forms of online communication and training for the workplace; management of groups that produce these materials, and transferring research results to practice. He has received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Council on Learning, Hong Kong University Grants Council, KnowledgeOne, and Society for Technical Communication.

Carliner also has extensive industry experience, where he continues to work as a consultant specializing in strategic planning and evaluation learning and communications groups. Clients include Bell Canada, Chubb Insurance, Cossette Communications, Equitas, Georgia-Pacific, Georgia Tech, IBM, Microsoft Corporation, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, ST Microelectronics, UPS, Wachovia, and several Canadian and US government agencies.

Carliner's books, articles, and corporate projects have earned him numerous awards, including Best of Show and Excellence awards in international communication competitions. He serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, e-Learn Magazine, Information Design Design Journal, and Performance Improvement Quarterly, as well as the Advisory Board of the Technical Communication e-Server.

Carliner is a Certified Training and Development Professional (through the Canadian Society for Training and Development), incoming editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, a national board member and chair of the Certification Steering Committee of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, a board member of the Quebec Association of Adult Learning, a past Research Fellow of the American Society for Training and Development, and a fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication.