Copyright © 2023 Jon Dron

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

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https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993838.01

Cover design by Sergiy Kozakov

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: How education works : teaching, technology, and technique / Jon Dron.

Names: Dron, Jon, 1961– author.

Series: Issues in distance education series.

Description: Series statement: Issues in distance education | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230438857 | Canadiana (ebook) 20230438865 | ISBN 9781771993838 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993845 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771993852 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational innovations. | LCSH: Educational technology.

Classification: LCC LB1027 .D76 2023 | DDC 371.33—dc23

Image sources for part openers

Preamble. Photograph by Sam Hood, 24 March 1939, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110016958.

Part 1. Clinton Folger’s “Horsemobile” delivering mail, on South Beach Street, at Hayden’s Bath House entrance, n.d., Nantucket Historical Association Library, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horse_drawn_US_Mail_car.jpg.

Part 2. Cartoon by Jean Marc Cote, 1901, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France_in_XXI_Century._School.jpg.

Part 3. Photograph by Sam Hood, 24 March 1939, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110016951.

Epilogue. Photograph by Ken Thomas, 2001, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry-27527.jpg.

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