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Book Reviews

Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases from Higher Education

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Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases from Higher Education, by Thomas M. Duffy and Jamie R. Kirkley, editors, Cloth, Publication Date: 2004, ISBN: 0-8058-4577-1, Available from: Lawrence Erlbaum

Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Network

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Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks (2005), edited by Roxanne Hiltz and Ricki Goldman has just become available from Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. ISBN 0-8058-4866-5 (cloth), ISBN 0-8058-5255-7 (paper)

Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to eLearning and Why

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Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to eLearning and Why by Robert Zemsky and William F. Massy, was published online in June 2004 as a report for the Weatherstation Project of the Learning Alliance for Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Reviewed by J.Bourne, F. Mayadas and J. Moore of the Sloan Consortium.

From Digital Divide to Digital Democracy

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Gerardo E. de los Santos, Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr., and Mark David Milliron, Editors, From Digital Divide to Digital Democracy. League for Innovation.

Building a Workforce System through Partnering

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Norm Nielsen, Dee Baird, Boo Browning, and Mark David Milliron, Editors, Building a Workforce System through Partnering. League for Innovation. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

The Leadership Dialogues: Community College Case Studies to Consider

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Larry W. Tyree, Mark David Milliron, and Gerardo E. de los Santos, Editors, The Leadership Dialogues: Community College Case Studies to Consider. League for Innovation.

New Technologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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Jaishree Odin of the University of Hawaii reviews Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Ed. Orville Vernon Burton. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Review in press at On the Horizon

Does E-Moderating an Active Online Classroom Create?

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Jaishree Odin of the University of Hawaii reviews Gilly Salmon's E-tivities The Key to Active Online Learning. London, Kogan Page, Ltd., 2002. Review in press at On the Horizon

A New Knowledge of Reality

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Janet Moore of Olin College reviews the National Research Council's report, Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University. National Acadamies of Sciences, November 2002. Review in press at On the Horizon

Retrospection and Prediction: Handbook of Distance Education

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Michael G. Moore and William G. Anderson, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2003

Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World-Class Work Force

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Jeanne Meister. New York: McGraw-Hill Trade, 1998

Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education

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William F. Massy. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2003

Higher Ed, Inc. The Rise of the Forprofit University

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Richard S. Ruch, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution: Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access

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Howard Rheingold, Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 2002.

Dealing with the Future: Principles for Creating a Vital Campus in a Climate of Restricted Resources

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The Project on the Future of Higher Education. Change: July/August 2003.

Expanding Access to Learning: The Role of Virtual Universities

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Center for Academic Transformation.

The Internet and the University: 2002 Forum

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Forum for the Future of Higher Education and EDUCAUSE.

What Games Have to Teach Us about Creating Engaging Learning Experiences

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Digital Game-Based Learning, Author: Mark Prensky, Publisher: McGraw-Hill
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, Author: James Paul Gee, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, Second Edition

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Judith V. Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad, Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, Second Edition. League for Innovation.

Turning knowledge into action

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Lisa Petrides, Turning Knowledge into Action. Leadership Abstracts, League for Innovation.