Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and governments around the world are looking to improve their education systems. The future of education in the 21st century is not simply about reaching more people, but about improving the quality and diversity of educational...

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Foreword : lost and found in the reading machine / Michael Toolan -- 1. Authorship attribution and the digital humanities curriculum / Patrick Juola -- 2. Multivariate analysis of stance in fiction : a case study / Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen -- 3. Literary onomastics and language technology / Lars...

"This book explores the impact of Web-based technology on the design, implementation and evaluation of the learning and teaching process, as well as the development of new activities, relationships, skills, and competencies for the various actors implied in such processes"--Provided by publisher.

"This book documents real-world experiences of innovators in higher education who have redesigned spaces for learning and teaching, including physical, virtual, formal, informal, blended, flexible, and time sensitive factors"--Provided by publisher.

"Current advances and convergence trends in Web 2.0 have changed the way we communicate and collaborate, and as a result, user-controlled communities and user-generated content through Web 2.0 are expected to play an important role for collaborative learning. Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open...

"This book highlights invaluable research covering the design, development, and evaluation of online learning environments, examining the role of technology enhanced learning in this emerging area"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a manual for the novice-Human Computer Interaction (HCI) designer. It compares and contrasts online business training programs with e-Learning in the higher education sector and provides a range of positive outcomes for linking information management techniques, which exploit the...