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Harmonizing Global Education

From Genghis Khan to Facebook

By: Jon Baggaley

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Harmonizing Global Education

From Genghis Khan to Facebook

By: Jon Baggaley

Distance education (DE) offers ways to reach the many people around the world who lack access to education and training by other means. International DE methods, however, are fragmented, and distance educators have often abandoned new technologies before giving them a chance to develop. As a result, many current DE tools and techniques are incompatible with the needs and cultures of different global regions. With the goal of designing efficient, relevant DE for worldwide audiences, Harmonizing Global Education invites scholars and practitioners to consider the historic development of technology-based education and communication studies, going back further in the literature than is often assumed necessary. The book examines a wide range of historical ideas capable of shaping modern DE, including the Luddite Revolt among British textiles workers in 1811-12, the evolution of cubist art and musical aesthetics, and the visionary advances of early twentieth-century Soviet multimedia specialists. The author urges an awareness of previous generations of communications studies, and shows how audience research relating to traditional media can be relevant in the design of current internet-based and social media approaches. Today's open universities have grown from these earlier historical efforts, and the future success of open and distance education depends on learning from the successes and the failures of the past.

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Routledge

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1136730524

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9781136730528

Distance Education Technologies in Asia

By: Jon Baggaley,Tian Belawati

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Distance Education Technologies in Asia

By: Jon Baggaley,Tian Belawati

In Asia, Distance Education (DE) is providing major solutions in the areas of education and training. DE methods that are standard in other parts of the world, however, have yet to demonstrate their full potential in Asia. Covering nine DE projects by 39 researchers from 13 countries, this book analyses the DE scenario in Asia, the successes, the failures and the reasons behind them. This book is a unique collation of the results of studies of educational technologies across an extensive network of Asian countries. It also provides a useful snapshot of DE's development in Asia in the early years of the 21st century. The surveys reported cover different DE contexts, methodologies, and levels of generalisability, and add to the existing scholarship on the subject by providing previously unavailable, firm evidence about DE's prospects in Asia. The contributors give important recommendations that can be translated into practical and political actions to help solve critical socio-economic problems of Asia as well as other parts of the world.

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SAGE Publications

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8132105613

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9788132105619

Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education

By: Tian Belawati,Jon Baggaley

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Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education

By: Tian Belawati,Jon Baggaley

This book has been designed for the orientation and training of specialists in open and distance learning methods in Asia. It is the outcome of the collaborative PANdora research and development initiative (2005–08) between 24 open and distance learning (ODL) institutions, government departments and non-governmental organizations in 13 Asian countries. The guidelines in the book have been designed in modular form so that selected sections can be combined according to users’ needs and translated into local languages in keeping with the PANdora network’s open resources philosophy.

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SAGE Publications

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8132105621

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9788132105626

A Brief History of the First World War

Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914–18

By: Jon E. Lewis

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A Brief History of the First World War

Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914–18

By: Jon E. Lewis

Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire and the supremacy of America. These compelling eyewitness accounts - over 180 of them - of the War to End All Wars cover every facet of the war, from the Flanders trenches to the staffrooms of the Imperial German Army, from T. E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') in the desert to German figher ace the Red Baron in the air, and from English Land Girls to German U-boat crews in the North Atlantic. There are contributions from all combatant nations, including the UK, USA, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Australia, Russia, Serbia, and India and the book includes a detailed timeline and maps.

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Robinson

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1472111745

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The Psychopath Test

A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

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The Psychopath Test

A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . . Combining Jon Ronson's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . provocative and interesting' – Observer

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Pan Macmillan

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1447202503

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The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

By: Jon E. Lewis

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The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

By: Jon E. Lewis

The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.

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Robinson

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1780337299

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Global Education

From Genghis Khan to Facebook

By: Jon Baggaley

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Global Education

From Genghis Khan to Facebook

By: Jon Baggaley

To provide the most effective, relevant distance education, Global Education urges an examination of the full range of literature and historic development behind technology-based education and communication studies.

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1136730532

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Book's by Jon Baggaley

Harmonizing Global Education

Harmonizing Global Education

Distance Education Technologies in Asia

Distance Education Technologies in Asia

Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education

Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education

A Brief History of the First World War

A Brief History of the First World War

The Psychopath Test

The Psychopath Test

The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

Global Education

Global Education

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