Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alan tait”
Skip side bar filters

  • Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education

    Change and Continuity in an International Context

    Edited by Roger Mills, Alan Tait ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Distance Education
    Distance learning is becoming an increasingly popular way of studying, and most universities now provide courses using these methods. Today's students, though, are demanding high quality, consumer-focused and flexible courses, as well as learning resources and active learner support. This means that providers of distance education need to reconsider key issues about their learner support systems, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Distance and E-learning in Transition

    Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges

    Edited by Alan Tait, Martine Vidal, Ulrich Bernath, András Szücs ...
    The rushed development of information and communication technologies and their impact on the world of learning in the last decade have profoundly changed the paradigms, scenarios and values at all levels of education.The professionalization of tools and practices, in addition to the consolidation of academic and practical knowledge, has been a major continuing issue throughout these years. The ... Read more

    $321.00 USD

  • The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education

    Patterns of Flexibility for the Individual Learner

    Edited by Roger Mills, Alan Tait ...
    This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conventional education. The term 'convergence' refers to the breaking down of barriers between open and distance learning and conventional institutions, and the creation of more and more institutions working across a range of modes. Such convergence has ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Supporting Lifelong Learning

    Volume III: Making Policy Work

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Nod Miller, Nick Small, Alan Tait ...
    This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the policies themselves, and their effects when implemented. The book focuses on the role of lifelong ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Educational Leadership

    Context, Strategy and Collaboration

    Edited by Maggie Preedy, Christine Wise, Nigel D Bennett ...
    Series series Published in association with The Open University
    Drawing together current thinking and research by leading writers in the field, this Reader will help you to understand and critically analyse key strategic aspects of educational leadership, including:- leadership perspectives and values- external and internal contexts- autonomy and accountability- partnership and collaboration- leading strategy and change.The book explores major challenges for ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Organizing & Organizations

    by Stephen Fineman, Yiannis Gabriel, David B P Sims ...
    Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel and Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged.The Fourth Edition builds on the ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

    Free

  • Public Relations

    Concepts, Practice and Critique

    by Jacquie L′Etang ...
    "An excellent text for encouraging students to think critically about key public relations issues. Not only does it help students to develop a deeper appreciation of public relations, it also helps them to develop valuable learning skills."- Amanda Coady, The Hague University"A typically excellent piece of work from Jacquie L′Etang. Critical of every basic concept and provocative to all students. ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Managing Information and Knowledge in Organizations

    A Literacy Approach

    by Alistair Mutch ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Information Systems
    Knowledge is increasingly regarded as central, both to the successful functioning of organizations and to their strategic direction. Managing Information and Knowledge in Organizations explores the nature and place of knowledge in contemporary organizations, paying particular attention to the management of information and data and to the crucial en ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Managing Organizational Change in Public Services

    International Issues, Challenges and Cases

    Edited by Rune Todnem By, Calum Macleod ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
    Forming part of the Understanding Organizational Change series, Managing Organizational Change in Public Services focuses on the organizational dimension of change management in public services. Combining aspects of change management theory with ‘real life’ practice in the form of organizational cases from different regions and sectors, this edited collection identifies and analyzes significant ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Pedagogy and Learning with ICT

    Researching the Art of Innovation

    by Bridget Somekh ...
    Bridget Somekh draws on her experience of researching the introduction of ICT into education to look at ICT development over the last twenty years. The book provides a fascinating, in-depth analysis of the nature of learning, ICT pedagogies and the processes of change for teachers, schools and education systems. It covers the key issues relating to the innovation of ICT that have arisen over this ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations

    by Ray French ...
    Formerly rooted firmly in the domain of anthropology, the topic of culture has shifted over the last thirty-five years to become an important component of business and management as organisations have become global. As companies outsource some of their work to other countries, or as employees migrate to new locations, culture can impact upon things such as attitudes to authority, differences in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD