[Air-l] New book: HANDBOOK OF E-LEARNING RESEARCH

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Another example of unashamed self-publicity ... This should be out before the 
AoIR conference.  /Caroline


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HANDBOOK OF E-LEARNING RESEARCH
Sage, forthcoming August 2007

Edited by 

Richard Andrews, University of York, UK
and 
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

For chapter abstracts, see: 
http://classweb.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/books/toc_handbook.html


Table Of Contents

Richard Andrews and Caroline Haythornthwaite
- - Introduction to e-learning research 

CONTEXTS FOR RESEARCHING E-LEARNING
Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff and Linda Harasim
 - - Development and philosophy of the field of asynchronous learning networks 
Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe 
 - - On computers and writing
Caroline Haythornthwaite
 - - Digital divide and e-learning
Angela McFarlane
 - - Learning and the world of games and play
Christopher Hoadley
 - - Learning sciences theories and methods for e-learning researchers

THEORY
Melody M. Thompson
 - - From distance education to e-learning
Terry Locke
 - - E-learning and the reshaping of rhetorical space
Andrew Whitworth
 - - Researching the cognitive cultures of e-learning
Mike Sharples, Josie Taylor and Giasemi Vavoula
 - - A theory of learning for the mobile age
Naomi Miyake
 - - Computer supported collaborative learning

POLICY
Virgil E. Varvel, Rae-Anne Montague & Leigh S. Estabrook 
 - - Policy and e-learning
Gráinne Conole
 - - An international comparison of the relationship between policy and practice 
in e-learning
Michelle M. Kazmer
 - - Community-embedded learning
Konrad Morgan and Madeleine Morgan
 - - The challenges of gender, age and personality in e-learning

LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
Janina Brutt-Griffler
 - - Bilingualism and e-learning
Carol A. Chapelle 
 - - Second language learning and online communication
Illana Snyder
 - - Literacy, learning and technology studies
Zhao Yuan
 - - Problems of researching e-learning
 - - the case of computer-assisted language learning

DESIGN ISSUES

Bronwyn Stuckey & Sasha Barab
 - - New conceptions for community design 
Wynne Harlen and Susan J. Doubler
 - - Researching the impact of online professional development for teachers 
Ellen Roberts & Jane Rostron
 - - Exploring e-learning community in a global postgraduate programme  
Andrew Burn 
 - - The place of digital video in the curriculum


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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820