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Exploration of Online Teaching and Learning Practices - Annotated Bibliography

 


Routledge (n.d.). The theory and practice of online teaching and learning: A guide for academic professionals. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/FreeBooks+Opened+Up/Theory_and_Practice_of_Online_FB_final.pdf

Provides insights in relation to the different sides of online teaching. Compares and contrasts some aspects of online and on-site teaching and learning processes. Affords guidelines on important matters related to online education and debunks some beliefs held by educators in this field. Provides parameters for categorising online learning. Explores the effects of technology on societal behaviour in relation to learning. Puts forward the hazard that the escalation of technology implies to formal education and the importance of educators' roles in such a state of affairs.

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Routledge (n.d.). The theory and practice of online teaching and learning: A guide for academic professionals. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/FreeBooks+Opened+Up/Theory_and_Practice_of_Online_FB_final.pdf


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