NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Chapter 7: Making a Contribution: Opener #6: Learner Participation in Open Information CommunitiesChapter 8: Collaborate or Die!: Opener #7: Electronic Collaboration and Interaction; Chapter 9: Who Are You?: Opener #8: Alternative Reality Learning; Chapter 10: U-Learning?: Opener #9: Real-Time Mobility and Portability; Chapter 11: Learning at Your Service: Opener #10: Networks of Personalized Learning; Chapter 12: The Tre

The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education; Contents; Introduction to the Open Learning World; Chapter 1: We All Learn; Chapter 2: To Search and to Scan: Opener #1: Web Searching in the World of E-Books; Chapter 3: E-Demand Around the Globe: Opener #2: E-Learning and Blended Learning; Chapter 4: It's a Free Software World After All: Opener #3: Availability of Open Source and Free Software; Chapter 5: MIT in Every Home: Opener #4: Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare; Chapter 6: Portals for the People: Opener #5: Learning Object Repositories and Portals

Praise for The World Is Open. "In this epic effort, Dr. Bonk takes the technologies, the concepts, the future and even the past of distance education and synthesizes it into a comprehensible landscape. He gives us a window from which we can see it all. Masterful!" -Glenn R. Jones, chancellor, Jones International University. "Network technology has proven to be a great social leveler and on-ramp to learning for all of the world's citizens. As technology continues to mature

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