Practical Online Learning eBook

Practical Online Learning and Laboratories for Engineering, Science and Technology - Steve Mackay and Darrell Fisher

"Apply the new online technologies to create brilliant hands-on, interactive education and training for professional and students of engineering and technology."

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Creating Useful Education and Training
Chapter 3: Putting Online Learning Under the Microscope
Chapter 4: Key Elements of Asynchronous Online Learning
Chapter 5: Synchronous Online Fundamentals
Chapter 6: Good Practice in Web Conferencing
Chapter 7: Mobile Learning
Chapter 8: Review of Traditional and Online Laboratories
Chapter 9: Virtual Laboratories
Chapter 10: Remote Laboratory Applications
Chapter 11: Remote Laboratory Approaches
Chapter 12: Virtual Teams and Collaborative Learning
Chapter 13: Assessment and Evaluation of Students and Online Learning Programs
Chapter 14: Management of Online Learning
Chapter 15: Marketing of Online Learning
Chapter 16: Applications
Chapter 17: Tying it All Together
Appendix A - Self-Appraisal for Distance Learning Preferences
Appendix B - A Typical Learning Management System
Appendix C - A Typical Web Conferencing Package
Appendix D - A Typical Remote Labs Software Package
Appendix E - A Typical Proctoring Software Package
References

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