International handbook of virtual learning environments /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Dordrecht ; [New York] : Springer, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (2 v. (xxxv, 1615 p.))
Language:	English
Series:	SIHE ; v. 14 Springer international handbooks of education ; v. 14.
Subject:	Computer-assisted instruction. Internet in education. Computer-assisted instruction. Internet in education.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8878748

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Other authors / contributors:	Weiss, Joël.
ISBN:	9781402038037 1402038038 140203802X (set : alk. paper) 9781402038020
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Explores Virtual Learning Environments (VLE's), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds. This book is divided into four sections: Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments; Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management; Out-of-School Learning Environments; and Challenges for VLE's.
Other form:	Print version: International handbook of virtual learning environments. Dordrecht ; [New York] : Springer, 2006 140203802X 9781402038020

Table of Contents:

Front Matter; Rethinking the Virtual; A History of E-learning: Shift Happened; Towards Philosophy of Technology in Education: Mapping the Field; A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century; Teaching and Transformation: Donna Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" and Its Influence in Computer-Supported Composition Classrooms; The Political Economy of the Internet: Contesting Capitalism, the Spirit of Informationalism, and Virtual Learning Environments; The Influence of ASCII on the Construction of Internet-Based Knowledge.

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