Global Perspectives on E-Learning: Rhetoric and Reality
Global Perspectives on E-Learning: Rhetoric and Reality by Alison A. Carr-Chellman, published by SAGE Publications, Inc on January 12, 2005, explores the complexities of international online education. This 288-page book critically examines the rhetoric surrounding e-learning initiatives and their actual impact on teaching and learning across the globe. The editor aims to provide a deeper understanding of the merits and challenges associated with online distance education.
Readers will find a collection of case studies that highlight the various issues faced by international distance educators, including who benefits from these educational advancements and who remains marginalized. The book seeks to address the needs of disenfranchised groups while offering a balanced perspective on the potential and pitfalls of distance education. By supplementing existing literature that often presents a more optimistic view, this edition encourages a critical examination of educational technology and its implications for distance education.
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Global Perspectives on E-Learning: Rhetoric and Reality presents several cases of international online education and the rhetoric that surrounds this form of teaching and learning. Editor Alison A. Carr-Chellman examines the impact of online distance education throughout the world in an effort to understand more deeply the merits of such initiatives. Written from a critical perspective, the book sheds light on some of the problems faced by international distance educators. It particularly focuses on who benefits, and who does not, by the advance of international e-learning and how we can respond to the needs of the disenfranchised. This book is intended to supplement what has to this point been largely a positive, how-to literature in distance education. It offers a balanced perspective on the problems and possibilities of distance education worldwide.
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