Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002081301t.htm

A New Handbook Examines Online Learning From a Psychological Perspective
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For Kjell-Erik Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz-Read -- both associate deans of psychology at the Fielding Graduate Institute -- compiling a guide to online learning was a natural extension of their own research and practice. The book "definitely came out of our own work situation," Mr. Rudestam says. "Basically, we started writing some of the things that we thought we do well." The two solicited 20 previously unpublished articles for Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training (Sage Publications, 2002), a guide to e-learning practices that reflects the academic focus of its creators. "By and large," says Mr. Rudestam, "the faculty who contributed to the book are quite psychologically savvy" -- even though few actually work in the field....

 



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