The E-Learning Handbook: Past Promises, Present Challenges

by Saul Carliner (Editor), Patti Shank

"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.

Genres: Teaching

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 5, 2007

About the author

Saul Carliner is Interim Chair and Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal, where his research and teaching focus on the design of materials for learning and communication, the management of groups who produce these materials, and the transfer of research to practice.

Also an industry consultant, he serves as Research Director for Lakewood Media and has provided strategic analysis, design, and evaluation services for organizations like the Bronx Zoo, Equitas, Lowe’s, ST Microelectronics, Turkish Management Centre, and several government agencies.