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The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning

By: Lorraine Stefani,Robin Mason,Chris Pegler

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The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning

By: Lorraine Stefani,Robin Mason,Chris Pegler

E-portfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. They can serve as an administrative tool to manage and organise work, to present course assignments and act as the medium for learners to record their learning goals, outcomes and achievements. They encourage personal reflection and involve the exchange of ideas and feedback. Using technology in this way supports students' abilities in using and exploiting technology for professional and personal purposes, enabling any time, any place learning and peer learning and facilitating the provision of tutor feedback. e-Portfolios is a comprehensive, practical guide for lecturers and staff developers who need to know more about the development of purposeful e-portfolios for supporting students in reflecting on their learning.

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Routledge

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1134127014

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e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook

Resources for Higher Education

By: Frank Rennie,Robin Mason

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e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook

Resources for Higher Education

By: Frank Rennie,Robin Mason

Student engagement with digital learning resources and online social networking are strong forces in education today. How can these resources best be utilized by educators and course designers in higher education? This book aims to provide the reader with enough background information to appreciate the value of social networking, especially for distributed education. Through highlighting the most relevant, interesting, and challenging aspects of e-learning the book provides practical advice for using social networking tools in course design. This volume covers the following issues of course design using social networking: key issues of social networking as an educational technique designing for a distributed environment strengths and weaknesses of delivering content in various formats: text, audio and video specific media: blogging, wikis, podcasting, webcasting constraints on course design implementation, evaluation, induction and training Illustrated by short descriptive case studies, it also highlights contact addresses, websites, and further reading to help readers find resources and enhance their design. This practical guide will help all those involved in the design and delivery of online learning in higher education make the best choices when preparing courses for distributed learning. Robin Mason is Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University where she is a specialist in the design and practice of online teaching and learning. Frank Rennie is Professor of Sustainable Rural Development at the UHI Millennium Institute in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Please visit the authors’ wiki at: www.socialnetworking.wetpaint.com

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Routledge

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1134092857

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9781134092857

The New Paper Trails

By: Robin Garden

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The New Paper Trails

By: Robin Garden

The New Paper Trails is a lively and provocative collection of 24 short-short stories suitable for upper primary and lower secondary students of English. These lesson-sized stories from Australian and international authors cover a range of themes, styles and genres, and introduce students to writing techniques and the skills of critical literacy. This new edition of the original anthology includes a completely new set of stories, activities and exercises, along a bold and engaging design and illustrations. It features work from well-known authors such as Garth Nix, Angela Carter and Carmel Bird, and alongside authors just starting their literary careers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107400554

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9781107400559

History of the East Coast Main Line

By: Robin Jones

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History of the East Coast Main Line

By: Robin Jones

Since the mid-nineteenth century the East Coast Main Line has been one of the major routes from London to northern England and to Scotland. It has seen some of the greatest achievements in the railways, most notably the 'Flying Scotsman' becoming, in 1934, the first locomotive in the world to exceed 100mph and the 'Mallard' in 1938 claiming the as-yet-unbroken world speed record for steam locomotives of 126mph. The East Coast Main Line not only made history by facilitating an ever-faster link between two capital cities, it also provided an international stage for Britain's engineering marvels, inspiring many generations of schoolboys and adults alike. That was to continue after the end of the steam era on British Railways, with diesel and then electric traction setting a series of new records over the route. This new book looks at how the London-Edinburgh line became the world's fastest steam railway and how its proud and unique heritage is appreciated and celebrated today more than ever before. Superbly illustrated with over 300 colour and black & white photographs.

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The Crowood Press

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1785002872

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9781785002878

Having Fun Together

A Collection of Children's Stories

By: Robin Pegler

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Having Fun Together

A Collection of Children's Stories

By: Robin Pegler

Life should be fun, and Having Fun Together sets a delightful example of joyous entertainment for young readers. A collection of 90 enchanting children's stories, these tales take place in Johannesburg and center around six boys and girls, who are between the ages of six and nine. Some of the children in the group are black, and others are white. They are typical kids, although very intelligent and imaginative, and like many youngsters, they spend most of their time looking for fun -- and that often leads to impulsive and forgetful behavior. When the author combines the children's search for good times with their imaginative natures, a variety of embarrassing and entertaining situations result. But fun loving does not necessarily mean irresponsible. When the situation calls for it, these children can be mature, responsible, and eager to help their friends.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1606938177

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Elearning: The Key Concepts

By: Robin Mason,Frank Rennie

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Elearning: The Key Concepts

By: Robin Mason,Frank Rennie

E-Learning has long been touted as the brave new frontier of education, offering fresh challenges to teachers, students and, indeed, the whole of the education system. Addressing this, Elearning: The Key Concepts is the perfect reference for anyone seeking to navigate the myriad of names, concepts and applications associated with this new era of teaching, training and learning. Taking the reader from A to Z through a range of topics including blogging, course design, plagiarism, search engines and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), this timely work features: full cross-referencing a substantial introduction exploring the development of the field and putting modern-day challenges in context extensive guides to further reading. The only text of its kind to provide concise and user-friendly definitions of the crucial terms used in this growing field, this is a highly useful resource for online course co-ordinators, undergraduate students taking online courses, students on masters-level online learning courses, and trainers.

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Routledge

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1134191561

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9781134191567

The Connecticon

Learning for the Connected Generation

By: Frank Rennie,Robin Mason

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The Connecticon

Learning for the Connected Generation

By: Frank Rennie,Robin Mason

This book makes the case that the changes brought about by the connectivity of the Internet have so transformed the nature of post secondary learning that we need to view it differently. Both the content and the processes of learning have been profoundly altered because of the accessibility of information and the multi-way interactivity provided by the Internet. We call this new phenomenon ‘the Connecticon’ – which encompasses the new opportunities created by the infrastructure, the content, the multiple connection devices of the Web, as well as by the hyper-interactivity of the connected generation for whom attention is the new currency. It is the aim of this book to identify and document the Connecticon – its nature, its impact and its implications. We will do this in the broad domain of learning, though a similar study could be carried out in commercial, social or political fields.

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IAP

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1607529769

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EBOOK: Challenging e-Learning in the University

By: Robin Goodfellow,Mary Lea

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EBOOK: Challenging e-Learning in the University

By: Robin Goodfellow,Mary Lea

Informed by an intimate knowledge of a social literacies perspective, this book is full of profound insights and unexpected connections. Its scholarly, clear-eyed analysis of the role of new media in higher education sets the agenda for e-learning research in the twenty-first century" Ilana Snyder, Monash University "This book offers a radical rethinking of e-learning … The authors challenge teachers, course developers, and policy makers to see e-learning environments as textual practices, rooted deeply in the social and intellectual life of academic disciplines. This approach holds great promise for moving e-learning past its focus on technology and 'the learner' toward vital engagement with fields of inquiry through texts." Professor David Russell, Iowa State University Challenging e-learning in the University takes a new approach to the growing field of e-learning in higher education. In it, the authors argue that in order to develop e-learning in the university we need to understand the texts and practices that are involved in learning and teaching using online and web-based technologies. The book develops an approach which draws together social and cultural approaches to literacies, learning and technologies, illustrating these in practice through the exploration of case studies. It is key reading for educational developers who are concerned with the promises offered, but rarely delivered, with each new iteration of learning with technologies. It will also be of interest to literacies researchers and to HE policy makers and managers who wish to understand the contexts of e-learning.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335234887

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9780335234882

Stagg's University

The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago

By: Robin Lester

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Stagg's University

The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago

By: Robin Lester

For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the dominant use of the forward pass, of jersey numbers, and of the collegiate modern T formation. Stagg, who had been an all-American football player at Yale University, joined the company of nine former college or seminary presidents and academic notables including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Albert Michelson when he was named associate professor of physical culture and coach of the football team at the University of Chicago in 1892. Within fifteen years the charismatic Stagg had developed a program so powerful that more Americans knew of it than of the physics experiments of Michelson, who in 1907 became the first U.S. citizen to win the Nobel Prize. The logical commercial trail established by Stagg and University President William Rainey Harper helped change football into a mass entertainment industry on American campuses. This fascinating look at the birth of bigtime college sport shows how today s gridiron glory and scandal were prefigured in Chicago s football industry of the early twentieth century, presided over by the brilliant, combative, saintly, but very human Amos Alonzo Stagg.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252067916

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9780252067914

Magic in Britain

A History of Medieval and Earlier Practices

By: Robin Melrose

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Magic in Britain

A History of Medieval and Earlier Practices

By: Robin Melrose

Magic, both benevolent (white) and malign (black), has been practiced in the British Isles since at least the Iron Age (800 BCE-CE 43). "Curse tablets"--metal plates inscribed with curses intended to harm specific people--date from the Roman Empire. The Anglo-Saxons who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries used ritual curses in documents, and wrote spells and charms. When they became Christians in the seventh century, the new "magicians" were saints, who performed miracles. When William of Normandy became king in 1066, there was a resurgence of belief in magic. The Church was able to quell the fear of magicians, but the Reformation saw its revival, with numerous witchcraft trials in the late 16th and 17th centuries.

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McFarland

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1476632545

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The Druids and King Arthur

A New View of Early Britain

By: Robin Melrose

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The Druids and King Arthur

A New View of Early Britain

By: Robin Melrose

An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity, a belief in reincarnation, and a keen interest in astronomy. The work concludes that Arthur was originally a Druid cult figure and that the descendants of the Druids may have founded the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. The research draws upon a number of sources, including medieval Welsh tales, the archaeology of Stonehenge's Salisbury Plain, the legends surrounding the founding of Britain, the cult of the Thracian Horseman, the oracle of Dodona, popular Arthurian mythology, and the basic principles of prehistoric astronomy.

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0786460059

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9780786460052

The Somme

By: Robin Prior,Trevor Wilson

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The Somme

By: Robin Prior,Trevor Wilson

Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. “A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . . It is a model of historical research and should do much to further our understanding of the Great War and how it was fought.”—Contemporary Review “Revisionist history at its best.”—Library Journal (starred review) “A major addition to the literature on the military history of the Great War.”—Jay Winter

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Yale University Press

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0300220294

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9780300220292

I'll be Glad when I've Had Enough!

By: Robin Marshall-Ball

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I'll be Glad when I've Had Enough!

By: Robin Marshall-Ball

In this companion volume to the much-acclaimed 'I'll be Back in an Hour!', Robin Marshall-Ball ventures beyond the sea wall into Britain's last true wilderness areas of saltmarsh and tidal creeks to decsribe wildfowling in his own infectious and vivid style. A 'must-read' for lovers of wild and lonely places

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Lulu.com

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0956150802

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The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning

By: Lorraine Stefani,Robin Mason,Chris Pegler

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Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning

By: Lorraine Stefani,Robin Mason,Chris Pegler

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The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook

e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook

The New Paper Trails

The New Paper Trails

History of the East Coast Main Line

History of the East Coast Main Line

Having Fun Together

Having Fun Together

Elearning: The Key Concepts

Elearning: The Key Concepts

The Connecticon

The Connecticon

EBOOK: Challenging e-Learning in the University

EBOOK: Challenging e-Learning in the University

Stagg's University

Stagg's University

Magic in Britain

Magic in Britain

The Druids and King Arthur

The Druids and King Arthur

The Somme

The Somme

I'll be Glad when I've Had Enough!

I'll be Glad when I've Had Enough!

The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios

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