Issues in Distance Education

Series editor: Terry Anderson

Distance education is the fastest-growing mode of both formal and informal teaching, training, and learning. It is multi-faceted in nature, encompassing e-learning and mobile learning, as well as immersive learning environments. Issues in Distance Education presents recent research results and offers informative and accessible overviews, analyses, and explorations of current topics and concerns and the technologies employed in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical questions and emerging trends, while also situating these developments within the historical evolution of distance education as a specialized mode of instruction.

Series Titles

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Second Edition

Edited by Terry Anderson

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

Edited by Mohamed Ally

A Designer’s Log: Case Studies in Instructional Design

Michael Power

Accessible Elements: Teaching Science Online and at a Distance

Edited by Dietmar Kennepohl and Lawton Shaw

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

Edited by George Veletsianos

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education

Edited by Elizabeth Burge, Chère Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson

Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry

Norman D. Vaughan, Martha Cleveland-Innes, and D. Randy Garrison

Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda

Edited by Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Terry Anderson

Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media

Jon Dron and Terry Anderson

Learning in Virtual Worlds: Research and Applications

Edited by Sue Gregory, Mark J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan

Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations and Applications

Edited by George Veletsianos

An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals

Swapna Kumar and Kara Dawson