Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Tomei, Lawrence A.

jul 2007 · IGI Global

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Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a comprehensive collection of case studies, empirical research, conceptual demonstrations, and best practices on Web-enabled learning technologies. This comprehensive, six-volume collection addresses all prominent aspects of online and distance learning, including information communication technologies applied to education, virtual classrooms, pedagogical systems, Web-based learning communities and library information systems, virtual universities, and numerous other topics. Collecting defining research in over 300 chapters from 544 contributors representing more than 40 countries, Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications enables libraries to provide a foundational reference to meet the information needs of researchers, educators, practitioners, administrators, and all other stakeholders in the online and distance learning context.

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Lawrence A. Tomei is a recently retired Professor of Education at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh PA. Born in Akron, Ohio, he earned a BSBA from the University of Akron (1972) and a Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Education at the University of Oklahoma (1975, 1978). He completed his EdD from USC (1983). Dr. Tomei entered the US Air Force in Fall 1972 and served on active duty until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994. He entered higher education as the Director of Administrative Technology at Duquesne University (1994-1998) and joined its School of Education full-time faculty as Instructional Technology Program Director, providing undergraduate, masters, and doctor programs (1998-2004). Some of his books on instructional technology include: (2001), (2002), (2005), (2015), (2016), and (2019). [Editor]