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NEW BOOK: COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN THE ONLINE CLASSROOM

  • 1.  NEW BOOK: COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN THE ONLINE CLASSROOM

    Posted 05-06-2002 10:36
    ** NEW FROM ANKER PUBLISHING COMPANY ***


    COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN THE ONLINE CLASSROOM
    Examples and Applications


    Patricia Comeaux, Editor

    Foreword by Kathryn L. Conway

    This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the
    human
    communication issues that must be addressed in higher education as
    interactive technologies evolve and continue to impact instructional
    design

    and practice. Written for faculty, administrators, graduate students,
    and
    scholars in higher education, it is a useful guide for anyone with a
    particular interest in the topic of communicating and collaborative
    learning
    via interactive technologies.

    Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, the contributors describe and
    analyze their experiences in collaboration and in using interactive
    technologies. The multidisciplinary approach of this book is valuable to
    anyone interested in pedagogical applications of interactive
    technologies
    across disciplines and institutions.

    Contents include:

    * Developing an MBA online degree program
    * Collaborative instructional design for an Internet-based graduate
    degree
    program
    * Degrees and programs by distance education
    * The impact of culture on the design and implementation of a distance
    education program
    * Virtual visiting professors: Communicative, pedagogical, and
    technological
    collaboration
    * Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and computer-mediated communication
    * Collaborating on the instructional design and implementation of an
    environmental education course
    * Linking two diversity and communication courses through interactive
    television
    * Camera presentation perspectives and techniques in an interactive
    audio/video instructional environment
    * Creating a collaborative computer-mediated communication culture
    * Designing and implementing an interactive online learning environment
    * Communicating: The key to success in an online writing and reading
    course
    * Fostering intellectual development in a learning community
    * Building a communications learning community

    Patricia Comeaux is Professor of Communication Studies, University of
    North

    Carolina, Wilmington.

    $39.95 * cloth * 320 pp * 2002 * ISBN 1-882982-50-9


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