This one-stop reference resource provides an authoritative introduction to remote learning and distance education, a form of schooling that burst into the national consciousness with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but which remains poorly understood in many ways.
This comprehensive resource offers historical background and context for understanding the origins and evolution of distance education, which advocates believe has the potential to change the national and international educational landscape in ways we have not seen in generations. And yet, because it burst onto the scene so quickly in the form of shifts to remote learning in primary and secondary schools around the world, teachers, students, administrators, and parents all became immersed in its operations without having a true understanding of what it entails and what it harbors for the future.
Today’s students, parents, and teachers are all seeking greater understanding of what distance education is and how it might look in the future. This book seeks to offer answers to those questions, while at the same time recognizing that it is a field that is changing at a rapid pace.
Features
- Provides important historical background on the development of modern distance education
- Offers thoughtful presentations of the pros and cons of this potentially revolutionary approach to teaching and learning
- Compiles resources that readers can pursue to deepen their understanding of the field
- Contains personal perspectives on the distance education experience from teachers and students
Contemporary World Issues
This award-winning series offers comprehensive, one-volume reference handbooks on important topics related to health, education, the environment, and social and ethical issues.
24-hour cable news. Millions of internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources?
A world of questions demands a library of answers.
Contemporary World Issues covers the controversial topics that students, readers, and citizens want to read about, write about, and know more about.
Features
Subject coverage spans six main categories:
- Criminal Justice
- Environment
- Gender and Ethnicity
- Politics, Law, and Government
- Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Society
Each volume offers a rich array of resources:
- A background and history essay that provides essential context and grounding for further study
- A balanced summary of ongoing controversies and proposed solutions that show numerous paths for further research on pressing, contemporary questions
- A forum of authoritative perspective essays by experts, offering a broad spectrum of arguments on the issues
- Carefully selected annotated documents, tables, and graphs that support statistical literacy and investigation of primary sources
- A chronology of events, legislation, and movements that place events in sequence and draw connections between them
- Annotated lists of print, web, and multimedia resources that power the next steps for in-depth research
- Profiles of key players and organizations
- A glossary of key terms
