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109 Ideas for Virtual Learning

How Open Content Will Help Close the Digital Divide

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109 Ideas for Virtual Learning

How Open Content Will Help Close the Digital Divide

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109 IDEAS For Virtual Learning reveals the online knowledge venue that today's generation uses to learn while playing along at school to receive promotions, diplomas, and degrees. Calling that venue "the virtual knowledge ecology", Judy Breck describes the networking of open content for learning online where knowledge is fresher, authoritative, and more compelling than at school. In this book, she provides her eyewitness account of the decade-long, ongoing cascade of what is known by humankind from traditional resources into the Internet and explains the network mechanisms that interconnect the knowledge once it gets online. Breck says the resulting virtual knowledge ecology is causing students worldwide literally to study from the same virtual page. The author forewarns readers to expect emerging good news as the virtual knowledge ecology opens the way for a global golden age of education in which students learn more and teachers are respected professionals.

Breck contends that literacy and learning follow naturally from the Internet interfacing what humankind knows. A boy or girl's hands can now hold a wireless device mirroring enlightenment from a new virtual venue into his or her mind.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Section 1: Approach
Chapter 3 Section 2: Attitude
Chapter 4 Section 3: Access
Chapter 5 Section 4: Aggregation
Chapter 6 Section 5: Adapting
Chapter 7 Section 6: Action
Chapter 8 Appendix 1: The Cyberschool Cascade
Chapter 9 Appendix : URLs for Web Pages Mentioned in the Ideas

Product details

Published Dec 30 2005
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 352
ISBN 9781578863723
Imprint R&L Education
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Series Digital Learning Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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