The E-Learning Handbook Past Promises,

The e-Learning Handbook provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world's foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll; Brent Wilson Lee Christopher; William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, and Jane Bozarth; Pat Brogan; Patrick Parrish; Marc J. Rosenberg and Steve Forman; Pat McGee; Philip C. Abrami, Gretchen Lowerison, Roger Cote, and Marie-Claude Lavoie; Thomas C. Reeves, Jan Herrington, and Ron Oliver; and Patrick Lambe. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the technological, design, economic, evaluation, research, economic, and philosophical issues underlying e-learning. Each chapter includes a chart that summarizes the key take-away points, contains questions that are useful for guiding discussions, and offers suggestions of related links, books, papers, reports, and articles.

Saul Carliner, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the graduate program in educational technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Among his numerous books is Advanced Web-Based Training Strategies from Pfeiffer.

Patti Shank, Ph.D., is the president of Learning Peaks LLC, an internationally known instructional design and instructional technology consulting firm. She is the editor of The Online Learning Idea Book and the coauthor of Making Sense of Online Learning, both from Pfeiffer.

Preface
Introduction
The Context for E-Learning
Thinking Critically to Move e-Learning Forward
The Reality Versus the Hype of E-Learning
Hype Versus Reality in the Boardroom: Why e-Learning Hasn't Lived Up to Its Initial Projections for Penetrating the Corporate Environment
Hype Versus Reality on Campus: Why e-Learning Isn't Likely to Replace a Professor Any Time Soon
Knowledge Management: From the Graveyard of Good Ideas
Technology Issues
Infrastructure for Learning: Options for Today or Screw-Ups for Tomorrow
e-Learning Standards: A Framework for Enabling the Creation and Distribution of High-Quality, Cost-Effective Web-Delivered Instruction
Learning with Objects
Web
and Beyond: The Changing Needs of Learners, New Tools, and Ways to Learn
Locked Out: Bridging the Divide Between Training and Information Technology
Design Issues
A Holistic Framework of Instructional Design for e-Learning
Converting e3-Learning to e3-Learning: An Alternative Instructional Design Method
Design with the Learning in Mind
Issues of Theory and Research
Revisiting Learning Theory for e-Learning
Design Research: A Better Approach to Improving Online Learning
Economic Issues and Moving Forward
Is e-Learning Economically Viable?
e-Learning: Today's Challenge, Tomorrow's Reality
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
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