'Online learning is growing rapidly as a discipline and in terms of its influence on education and training. Many activities that seemed impossible a decade ago - such as person to person online video - are now common place. The last five years have produced dramatic change in how individuals interact with each other and with information. This publication provides among the best theorizing, research, and implementation on online learning. Those who are new to technology in learning will find it a wonderful starting point. Those with extensive experience in online learning will find it to be an excellent foundation to revisit' - George Siemens, Athabasca University, Canada With the recent emergence of Web 2.0 technologies and the widespread use and availability of laptop computers and wireless networks, the integration of digital technologies is increasingly seen as an inevitable factor in e-Learning and education. Online Learning examines the influence of new technologies on online pedagogy and provides an authoritative synthesis of existing research in the field. It also investigates the direction of e-Learning in the digital age. Consisting of approximately 85 articles, the five parts focus on: Part One: Professional Development and Training Part Two: Digital Pedagogies Part Three: Digital Literacies Part Four: New and Emerging Technologies Part Five: Online Assessment

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING A Research Agenda for Online Teacher Professional Development - Chris Dede, Diane Ketelhut, Pameal Whitehouse, Lisa Breit and Erin McCloskey The New, Modern Practice of Adult Education: Online Instruction in a Continuing Professional Education Setting - Brain Donavant Understanding Interpersonal Interaction in an Online Professional Development Course - Rod Githens Learning to Teach With the Web: Factors Influencing Teacher Education Faculty - Michael Grant Responding to Technological Change: IT Skills and the Academic Teaching Profession - Phillip Haynes, Ken Ip, Patrick Saintas, Stan Stanier, Helen Palmer, Nicola Thomas, Gareth Reast, Joyce Barlow and Fred Maillardet Effect of an Internet Based Professional Development Program on Teachers′ Assessment Literacy for All Students - Nan Huai, Jeffrey Braden, Jennifer White and Stephen Elliott Pedagogical Implications of Online Discussion for Preservice Teacher Training - Yeonwook Im and Okhwa Lee Integrating Technology into Field-Based Experiences: A Model That Fosters Change - Sharon Judge and Blanche O′Bannon Appropriation, Mastery and Resistance to Technology in Early Childhood Preservice Teacher Education - James Laffey Adoption of ICT by Teacher Educators: One-On-One Teaching - Kathryn Matthew, Rebecca Callaway, Catherine Letendre, Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez and Elizabeth Stephens Learning to Teach With Technology: Authoring Practised Identities - Eli Ottesen Supporting Change and Scholarship through Review of Online Resources in Professional Development Settings - Jason Ravitz and Christopher Hoadley Can You Hear Me Now? Evaluation of an Online Wireless Technology to Provide Real-Time Feedback to Special Education Teachers-In-Training - Marcia Rock, Madeleine Gregg, Beth Thead, Sarah Acker, Robert Gable and Naomi Zigmond Teaching Courses Online: A Review of the Research - Mary Tallent-Runnels, Julie Thomas, William Lan, Sandi Cooper, Terence Ahern, Shana Shaw and Xiaoming Liu How Student Teachers Develop Their Understanding of Teaching Using ICT - Liz Taylor Measuring the Learning of University Teachers Following Online Staff Development Courses: A Spanish Case Study - Luis Villar and Olga Alegre PART TWO: DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES Pedagogical Considerations for a Web-Based Tandem Language Learning Environment - Christine Appel and Tony Mullen Digital Storytelling as a Signature Pedagogy for the New Humanities - Rina Benmayor Building on Solid Foundations: Establishing Criteria for E-Learning Development - Eddie Blass and Ann Davis Getting Up To Speed on the Information Highway: Integrating Web-Based Resources into Business Communication Pedagogy - Thomas Clark, Sherrie Human, Heidi Amshoff and Mike Sigg Using Digital Videos to Enhance Teacher Preparation - Stacy Dymond and Johnell Bentz E-Learning Pedagogy in the Third Millennium: The Need for Combining Social and Cognitive Constructivist Approaches - Uschi Felix Forging a Learning Community? A Pragmatic Approach to Co-Operative Learning - Richard Hall Cybertext Challenge: Teaching Literature In The Digital World - Raine Koskimaa Going the Distance with Online Education - Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns Gaea Leinhardt The Pedagogical Challenges to Collaborative Technologies - Diana Laurillard Computer Mediated Conferencing for Management Learning at the Open University - Gilly Salmon Integrating Technology into a Traditional Learning Environment: Reasons For and Risks of Success - Gunter Saunders and Fredrik Klemming Management Classes As Online Learning Communities - Paul Shrivastava Expanding Classroom Discussion with an Online Medium - David Slavit Working With Difference in Online Collaborative Groups - Regina Smith Cybercheats: Is Information and Communication Technology Fuelling Academic Dishonesty? - Attila Szabo and Jean Underwood Rethinking Learner Support: The Challenge of Collaborative Online Learning - Mary Thorpe Applying Distributed Learning Theory in Online Business Communication Courses - Kristin Walker PART THREE: DIGITAL LITERACIES Multimodality, Literacy and Texts: Developing a Discourse - Eve Bearne Literacy in the Digital Age: Learning From Computer Games - Catherine Beavis, Thomas Apperley, Claire Bradford, Joanne O′Mara and Christopher Walsh How to Become a Sophisticated User: A Two-Dimensional Approach to E-Literacy - Romam Brandtweiner, Elisabeth Donat and Johann Kerschbaum Digital Inequality Differences in Young Adults′ Use of the Internet - Eszter Hargittai and Amanda Hinnant A Review of School-Based Initiatives in Media Literacy Education - Renee Hobbs Information, Knowledge and Learning: Some Issues Facing Epistemology and Education in a Digital Age - Colin Lankshear, Michael Peters and Michele Knobel Children, Literacy and the UK National Grid for Learning - Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel Children′s Use of the Internet: Reflections on the Emerging Research Agenda - Sonia Livingstone Gradations in Digital Inclusion: Children, Young People and the Digital Divide - Sonia Livingstone and Ellen Helsper A Review of the ′Digital Turn′ in the New Literacy Studies - Kathy Ann Mills A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures - The New London Group Teaching The Virtual Generation - Luigi Prosperio and Dennis Gioia From Assimilation to Accommodation: A Developmental Framework for Integrating Digital Technologies into Literacy Research and Instruction - David Reinking, Linda Labbo and Michael McKenna The Demographics, Motivations and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively-Multiuser Online Graphical Environments - Nick Yee PART FOUR: NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Virtual Team Learning: An Introductory Study Team Exercise - Delwyn Clark and Jenny Gibb Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds and Distance Learning: Two Case Studies of Active Worlds as a Medium for Distance Education - Michele Dickey The Interactive Whiteboard: A Literature Survey - Derek Glover, David Miller, Doug Averis and Victor Door The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects - Lucas Graves Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age - Christine Greenhow, Beth Robelia and Joan Hughes Online Chat Facilities as Pedagogic Tools - Graeme Kirkpatrick Promoting Intercultural Exchanges with Blogs and Podcasting: A Study of Spanish-American Telecollaboration - Lina Lee Creating a Successful International Distance-Learning Classroom - Craig Little, Larissa Titarenko and Mira Bergelson The Slow Death of Formal Learning: A Polemic - David McGuire and Claire Gubbins Computerized Games and Simulations in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Research - Mark Peterson Why Virtual, Why Environments? Implementing Virtual Reality Concepts in Computer-Assisted Language Learning - Klaus Schwienhorst Integrating Web 2.0 in E-Learning Environments: A Socio-Technical Approach - Marianna Sigala Building a Shared Virtual Learning Culture: An International Classroom Partnership - Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Deborah Andrews More than ′Just a Game′: The Implications for Schools of Children′s Computer Games Communities - Ben Williamson and Keri Facer A Constructivist Mobile Learning Environment Supported By A Wireless Handheld Network - Gustavo Zurita and Miguel Nussbaum PART FIVE: ONLINE ASSESSMENT The Evaluation of Online Courses - Vincenza Benigno and Guglielmo Trentin Designing and Assessing Online Learning in English Literary Studies - Benjamin Colbert, Rosie Miles, Francis Wilson and Hilary Weeks Evaluation of an Online Tool for Assessing Competence in Achievement Testing - David Forbush, Donald Stenhoff, Eleazor Vasquez III, Matthew Furzland, Melina Alexander and Jared Stein Student Online Self-Assessment: Structuring Individual-Level Learning in a New Venture Creation Course - Sherrie Human, Thomas Clark and Melissa Baucus Developing Competent E-Learners: The Role of Assessment - Janet Macdonald E-Portfolios: An Assessment Tool for Online Courses - Robin Mason, Chris Pegler and Martin Weller The Experience of Collaborative Assessment in E-Learning - David McConnell Assessing and Monitoring Student Progress in an E-Learning Personnel Preparation Environment - Edward Meyen, Ronald Aust, Yvonne Bui and Robert Isaacson Virtual Communities and the Assessment of Online Marketing Education - James Peltier, William Drago and John Schibrowsky Teaching Business Cases Online Through Discussion Boards: Strategies and Best Practices - Keith Rollag Using the Online Environment in Assessment for Learning: A Case-Study of a Web-Based Course in Primary Care - Jill Russell, Lewis Elton, Deborah Swinglehurst and Trisha Greenhalgh The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture - Lorrie Shepard Learning-Teaching-Assessment Paradigms and the On-Line Classroom - Bruce Speck Computer-Assisted Assessment: Suggested Guidelines for an Institutional Strategy - Derek Stephens, Joanna Bull and Winnie Wade Assessment and Collaboration in Online Learning - Karen Swan, Jia Shen and Starr Roxanne Hiltz