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E-learning in the 21st Century: A Framework for Research and Practicereviewed by Ruby Evans - 2004 Title: E-learning in the 21st Century: A Framework for Research and Practice Author(s): D.R. Garrison and Terry Anderson Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415263468, Pages: 167, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com In the book’s preface, Garrison and Anderson assert that
“the goal of ‘e-learning in the twenty-first
century’ is to provide a framework for understanding the
application of e-learning in higher education” (p. xi).
The authors operationally define e-learning as those learning
activities conducted through electronic means on-line.
The authors identify E-learning in the 21st Century: A
Framework for Research and Practice as having broad audience
appeal. Primary audiences include “educators who wish
to facilitate critical discourse and higher-order learning through
the use of electronic technologies in a networked learning
context” (p. xii), and “researchers, practitioners, and
senior administrators in higher education who must guide the
adoption in their institutions of this unique and rapidly
proliferating technology” (p. xiv).
The book poses two major questions to readers. First,
Garrison and Anderson rhetorically query whether e-learning is to
be used simply to enhance inherently deficient existing practices
such as lecturing. Secondly, they beg the question of whether
or not technology has the potential to transform the educational
transaction towards the ideal of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Ruby Evans
University of Central Florida E-mail Author RUBY EVANS is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Community College Specialization area in the College of Education at UCF. She teaches fully web-based and web-enhanced graduate courses in higher education and educational research and conducts research in the area of community colleges and online teaching and learning. Dr. Evans serves on a variety of editorial review panels for educational journals, conferences, and organizations.
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