Author | Bork, Alfred. author |
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Title | Tutorial Distance Learning [electronic resource] : Rebuilding Our Educational System / by Alfred Bork, Sigrun Gunnarsdottir |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0636-1 |
Descript | XII, 192 p. 4 illus. online resource |
1. Introduction -- 1.1 Summary of Each Chapter -- 2. Problems And Visions Of Learning -- 2.1 The Problems of Education Today -- 2.2 The Visions -- 2.3 Need for a New Approach to Learning -- 3. Factors Of Distance Learning -- 3.1 Learning Paradigm -- 3.2 Level of Interaction -- 3.3 Student Locations -- 3.4 Time Constraints -- 3.5 Size of Learning Segments -- 3.6 Student Control of Content -- 3.7 Years of Learning -- 3.8 Student Support -- 3.9 Teachers or No Teachers -- 3.10 Number of Students -- 3.11 Grading or Mastery -- 3.12 Cost Factors -- 3.13 Evaluation -- 3.14 Delivery Method -- 3.15 Learning Subjects -- 3.16 Credit or NonCredit -- 3.17 Profit or NonProfit -- 4. Distance LearningโPresent And Future -- 4.1 Correspondence Learning -- 4.2 Remote Sound and Video -- 4.3 Remote Versions of Standard Courses -- 4.4 The United Kingdom Open University -- 4.5 The Mega-universities -- 4.6 Distance Learning in Fiction -- 4.7 Aspects of These Fictional Views of Learning -- 5. Individualization And Interaction -- 5.1 Individualization -- 5.2 Interaction -- 5.3 Cooperative Learning Groups -- 5.4 Storing Student Information -- 5.5 What Material Is Presented Next -- 5.6 Mastery Learning -- 5.7 Motivating Learners -- 6. Multimedia In Learning -- 6.1 Types of Multimedia -- 6.2 Why Media Improve Learning -- 7. Tutorial Learning -- 7.1 Tutors -- 7.2 Computer-Based Tutors -- 7.3 Is Computer-Based Tutorial Learning Possible? -- 7.4 Summary of Computer-Based Tutorial Learning -- 8. Delivery Of Learning -- 8.1 Older Delivery Methods -- 8.2 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM -- 8.3 The World Wide Web -- 8.4 Communication -- 8.5 Communication Media -- 9. Learning And Assessment -- 9.1 Why Do We Assess? -- 9.2 Types of Assessment -- 9.3 Combining Learning and Assessment -- 10. Structures For Technology Based Learning -- 10.1 Traditional Courses -- 10.2 Non-linear Learning -- 10.3 Mastery Organization -- 10.4 The Learning Cycle -- 10.5 Complete Mastery Learning Cycle -- 11. Developing Tutorial Learning Units -- 11.1 History of the Irvine-Geneva System -- 11.2 Management -- 11.3 Design -- 11.4 Implementation -- 11.5 Formative Evaluation and Improvement -- 11.6 Summative Evaluation -- 11.7 Improving the Irvine-Geneva System -- 12. Costs Of Highly Interactive Learning -- 12.1 The Economics of Learning -- 12.2 Developmental Costs -- 12.3 Marketing Costs -- 12.4 Administrative Costs -- 12.5 Delivery Costs -- 12.6 Profit -- 12.7 Costs for Usage by Poor Students -- 12.8 Funds for Additional Development and Distribution -- 12.9 Complete Costs for a Student Hour -- 12.10 Other Forms of Learning -- 12.11 Up Front Costs and Continuing Costs -- 13. Initial Tutorial Learning Units -- 13.1 Pre-school and Early Learning -- 13.2 Home Learning -- 13.3 Training -- 13.4 Adult Education -- 13.5 Schools -- 13.6 Literacy -- 13.7 Informal Learning Environments -- 13.8 Apprentice Learning -- 13.9 University Education -- 14. Starting New Distance Learning Institutions -- 14.1 The Experiment -- 14.2 Full Development -- 14.3 Marketing of Tutorial Units -- 14.4 Funding -- 14.5 Conclusions