Åben læring, fjernundervisning

Alt for ofte bliver e-learning ikke til andet end spredt fægtning. Hvis det virkelig skal skabe forandringer, skal det digitale integreres i organisationens læringskultur, så nærvær, deltagelse og motivation ikke går tabt.Denne bog viser, hvordan effektiv digital læring kan erstatte traditionelle kurser. Den er oplagt som håndbog for undervisere, ledere og HR-konsulenter, der skal facilitere digital læring i offentlige og private organisationer.Bogens første del giver dig indblik i muligheder og barrierer i forbindelse med digital læring. Bogens anden del præsenterer konkrete metoder til, hvordan man kan designe et digitalt læringsforløb. Der sættes blandt andet fokus på:blended learningden digitale facilitatordigitalt læringsdesigne-læringvirtuel læringsocial læring på digitale platformenye tendenser

This book "Optoelectronic Properties of Vertical Organic Field Effect Transistors," explores the fascinating world of organic semiconductor devices and their optoelectronic properties. The book is a comprehensive guide to the working principle, fabrication, and characterization of vertical organic field effect transistors, with a focus on their potential applications in optoelectronic devices. The book begins with an introduction to the field of organic semiconductors, explaining the basics of molecular electronics, organic semiconductors, and their unique properties. The author then delves into the detailed working principle and fabrication processes for creating vertical organic field effect transistors, providing an in-depth analysis of their electrical and optical properties. The latter part of the book covers the potential applications of these transistors in various optoelectronic devices, including photodetectors, organic light-emitting diodes, and organic solar cells. The author explores the underlying mechanisms behind these applications and provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in the field. Overall, "Optoelectronic Properties of Vertical Organic Field Effect Transistors" is an essential reference for researchers, students, and professionals interested in the exciting field of organic semiconductors and their potential applications in optoelectronics. It offers a comprehensive overview of the field and provides valuable insights into the working principle, fabrication, and optoelectronic properties of vertical organic field effect transistors.

*Silver Winner, 2023 Nonfiction Book Awards**Winner, Best Book in Education, 2023 International Firebird Book Awards*

Hybrid cloud solutions have emerged as a compelling approach for organizations seeking to balance the benefits of both public and private cloud environments. These solutions combine on-premises infrastructure with cloud-based services, allowing businesses to optimize their operations, increase scalability, and improve flexibility. To harness the full potential of hybrid cloud, integration strategies play a pivotal role.Integration strategies for hybrid cloud solutions encompass a range of techniques and technologies aimed at seamlessly connecting and coordinating data, applications, and services across diverse cloud platforms. These strategies enable organizations to streamline their operations and derive maximum value from their hybrid cloud investments.One key integration approach involves creating robust application programming interfaces (APIs) that facilitate communication between on-premises systems and various cloud providers. This approach allows data and services to flow freely, ensuring that applications run smoothly across hybrid environments.Another essential strategy is data synchronization and replication. Organizations must ensure that data remains consistent and up to date, regardless of where it resides. Tools and techniques like data pipelines, database replication, and data warehousing are employed to maintain data integrity in a hybrid setup.Furthermore, containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes are instrumental in packaging applications and their dependencies, making them more portable across hybrid cloud environments. Containers provide the flexibility to run applications consistently across different cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure.Security and compliance are paramount in hybrid cloud integration. Strategies include robust identity and access management, encryption, and compliance monitoring to safeguard sensitive data and ensure adherence to industry regulations.

"Education Redefined: Social Media Across Borders" is a concept or initiative that aims to leverage the power of social media platforms to transform and enhance education in a global context. This concept recognizes the potential of social media to transcend geographical boundaries and bring education to a broader and more diverse audience.Here is a breakdown of the key elements of this concept:Education Transformation: "Education Redefined" signifies a departure from traditional educational models. It suggests a shift towards more flexible, accessible, and inclusive forms of learning that are not confined to physical classrooms or specific geographic locations.Social Media Integration: This concept emphasizes the utilization of various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and more, as tools for educational purposes. These platforms can be used to share knowledge, connect with learners, and facilitate discussions.Global Reach: By "Across Borders," the concept highlights the idea that social media can facilitate education on a global scale. Learners and educators from different countries can connect and collaborate, breaking down the barriers created by physical distance.Accessibility: Social media is often accessible through smartphones and computers, making it a convenient medium for learning. It can provide access to education for individuals who may not have access to traditional educational resources.Diverse Learning Opportunities: Social media allows for a wide range of learning opportunities, from short video tutorials to in-depth discussions and online courses. Learners can choose the format that best suits their needs and preferences.Collaboration and Networking: Social media platforms enable educators and learners to connect, collaborate, and network with peers, experts, and institutions from around the world. This fosters a rich learning environment and the exchange of ideas.Informal Learning: Education on social media doesn't always follow a structured curriculum. It often includes informal learning through blogs, vlogs, podcasts, and other user-generated content, which can be valuable for acquiring practical skills and knowledge.Challenges: While "Education Redefined: Social Media Across Borders" offers numerous advantages, it also comes with challenges such as ensuring the quality of information, dealing with distractions, and addressing issues related to digital literacy and online safety.In summary, "Education Redefined: Social Media Across Borders" represents a paradigm shift in education, where social media is harnessed as a powerful tool for learning and knowledge sharing that transcends geographical and institutional boundaries. It emphasizes the democratization of education, making learning more accessible, flexible, and collaborative on a global scale.

Middle school can be a fun, challenging, and confusing time for adolescents who are forced to experience it. It winds up being a period of three years that encompasses many physical and emotional changes, along with new responsibilities placed on them by teachers and parents. This short book is a look at the humorous and serious situations that are thrust into the faces of these unsuspecting youngsters. Some of the situations are normal and others are strange, at best. Together, they add up to a mishmash of emotions and predicaments that will leave you shaking your head, wondering how today's children ever make it through middle school in one piece.

*Silver Winner 2024 Literary Titan Book Awards**Winner, Best Book in Education, 2023 International Firebird Book Awards**Silver Winner, 2023 Nonfiction Book Awards*The world is changing quickly, and the way in which we learn and educate others must adapt along with it. With technology at the crux of all learning, leaders must have a strong grasp on how to create and deliver effective learning and training experiences.In Annette Levesque's new guide Elearning Gold: The Ultimate Guide for Leaders, she facilitates leaders and educators as they navigate the challenging world of distance education and training programs. Levesque, an experienced leader and education expert, offers practical insights and strategies to help you catapult your learning programs to the next level. From building and launching a virtual learning environment to creating effective policies and strategies for operational excellence, this guide is your key to success. The Elearning Gold roadmap takes its readers on a journey of knowledge, focusing on:*Virtual Learning Success Criteria*Digital Age Learning Models, Including Blended Learning*How to Increase Course Completion Rates and Learner Engagement*Building Your Learning Community*What Leaders Need to Know About Learning Management Systems*Managing Academic Misconduct in your Virtual Learning Program*How to Plan Your Virtual World Launch or Update*The Future of AI and Chatbots in Education Relinquish what you thought you knew as an education expert or trainer and embrace this new ideology on how to reach all learners-especially online. These strategies and techniques will help you create elearning systems and content that meet the needs of learners today and also prepares them for tomorrow.

Utilizing findings from more than 200 interviews with students, staff, and faculty at a US university, this volume explores the immediate and real-life impacts of COVID-19 on individuals to inform higher education policy and practice in times of crisis.Documenting the profound impacts that COVID-19 had on university operations and teaching, this text foregrounds a range of participant perspectives on key topics such as institutional leadership and loss of community, managing motivation and the move to online teaching and learning, and coping with the adverse mental health effects caused by the pandemic. Far from dwelling on the negative, the volume frames the lived experiences and implications of COVID-19 for higher education through a positive, progressive lens, and considers how institutions can best support individual and collective thriving during times of crisis.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in the sociology of education, higher education management, and eLearning more broadly. Those specifically interested in student affairs practice, as well as the administration of higher education, will also benefit from this book.

This edited volume focuses on the changing research methodologies in social science research, prompted by the new social world shaped by the pandemic. It explores adaptations and developments to meet the demands of transforming social circumstances and showcases innovative alternative approaches.

This book provides state-of-the-art contemporary research insights into key applications and processes in open world learning. Open world learning seeks to understand access to education, structures, and the presence of dialogue and support systems. It explores how the application of open world and educational technologies can be used to create opportunities for open and high-quality education.Presenting ground-breaking research from an award winning Leverhulme doctoral training programme, the book provides several integrated and cohesive perspectives of the affordances and limitations of open world learning. The chapters feature a wide range of open world learning topics, ranging from theoretical and methodological discussions to empirical demonstrations of how open world learning can be effectively implemented, evaluated, and used to inform theory and practice. The book brings together a range of innovative uses of technology and practice in open world learning from 387,134 learners and educators learning and working in 136 unique learning contexts across the globe and considers the enablers and disablers of openness in learning, ethical and privacy implications, and how open world learning can be used to foster inclusive approaches to learning across educational sectors, disciplines and countries.The book is unique in exploring the complex, contradictory and multi-disciplinary nature of open world learning at an international level and will be of great interest to academics, researchers, professionals, and policy makers in the field of education technology, e-learning and digital education.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This edited collection presents a Nordic perspective on intensified discussions concerning digitalization and digital competence in the current trends of educational work.

Bildung in the Digital Age explores the challenges and potentials of digitalization for educational theory and practice and identifies how the pedagogical concept of Bildung can be used to meet these demands.Discussing the educational landscape of a pandemic and post-pandemic world, the book describes how digitalization changes the media foundation of learning and teaching. It further raises questions of how we could think about Bildung in a digitalized world, how Bildung-based online teaching and learning can be implemented, and whether it is possible to understand Bildung and its emphasis on individual freedom and self-determination as a counter-concept to digital surveillance capitalism.The book will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of digital learning, educational theory, and media education.

Assessment of Online Learners offers essential foundations, insights, and real-world examples for pre-service teachers preparing to assess students in today's digitized classrooms.

MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses - enable students around the world to take university courses online. This guide, by the instructors of edX's most successful MOOC in 2013-2014, Principles of Written English (based on both enrollments and rate of completion), advises current and future students how to get the most out of their online study, covering areas such as what types of courses are offered and who offers them, what resources students need, how to register, how to work effectively with other students, how to interact with professors and staff, and how to handle assignments. This second edition offers a new chapter on how to stay motivated. This book is suitable for both native and non-native speakers of English, and is applicable to MOOC classes on any subject (and indeed, for just about any type of online study).

Online learning can be so dull--or not!Enter Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer, experienced authors andteachers, who decided it was time to take on the challenge of making online learning more interesting and compellingfor students. So, they met in a Zoom call, contacted Rosenfeld Media, and wrote this book, Design for Learning: UserExperience in Online Teaching and Learning (many Zoom calls later). The book is structured to teach online learning in such a way that anyone can follow its practices and create a dynamic educational presentation. Chapters cover everything fromlearning about your learners and setting learning goals to building connections with learners and giving them feedback. In addition, the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of creating online courses, including takeaways at the endof each chapter and easy-to-follow examples throughout."I particularly appreciate how thoughtful Jenae and Michael are about considering the experience from the learner's point of view and theemphasis they put on learner agency."--Julie Dirksen, Author, Design for How People LearnTogether, Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer have years of experience designing and producing online courses for students. They wanted the tone of their book to be friendly, supportive, engaging, empathetic, and thoughtful. With that in mind, they chose examples that reflected what an ordinary user might encounter on a day-to-day basis, highlighting everything from complex skills (accessibility) to the most minute details, such as: Writing compelling content and instructional textDesigning interesting text and visualsPlanning and producing videosRecording sound and voice-oversCreating and facilitating live website presentationsDesigning surveys for class feedbackRating whether your presentation was successfulWho This Book Is ForTeachers, learning development professionals, and anyone tasked with designing an online course or a one-off workshopContent creators, instructional designers, user experience designers, and others who care about the experience of online learningWhether you're a novice or experienced online instructional designer, this book will show you how to apply industry best practices, and provide how-to examples, powerful templates, and activities to craft compelling instructional content--whether text, audio, or video.Best of all--your course will never be called dull again.

In the beginning, I shall indicate my opinions to explain why computer and internet technology will be the best tool to solve any educational challenges as well as I shall recommend how any education organizations can apply this new technology to educate students effectively and efficiently. In generaly, educators think that education means considerably more than just teaching a student to read, write and numbers only. However, nowadays, computers, the internet nd advanced electronic are becoming essential in everyday life and have changes the way information is gathered. So, it brings these questions such as, how is this new technology utilized and managed by teachers to solve any teaching challenges more easily? Will this new technology have an important role to play in widening the resource and knowledge base for all students? Can technology is applied to school to bring teacher education behavior to be improved? Can technology or distance learning education method help schools to raise student number? Can distance learning need increase?

In today's fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, building and managing strong customer relationships is more important than ever. The ability to understand and meet the needs of customers, and to build long-term relationships with them, is a key driver of business success.In this book, we explore the various aspects of customer relationship management (CRM) and how it can be used to build and maintain strong customer relationships. We delve into the strategies, techniques, and technologies that are essential for mastering CRM.This book is designed for MBA students and business professionals who are looking to improve their understanding of CRM and its applications. It provides a comprehensive overview of the field, covering everything from the basics of customer needs and behaviors to advanced topics such as marketing and sales automation, social CRM, and CRM metrics and ROI.We also explore the unique challenges that small businesses and startups, public sector and non-profit organizations face when implementing CRM and show how CRM can be tailored to their specific needs.We hope that this book will serve as a valuable resource for those who are looking to improve their customer relationships and drive business success. Whether you are a student, a business professional, or an entrepreneur, the insights and strategies presented in this book will help you to master CRM and build strong, long-lasting customer relationships.

This timely book presents the latest scholarly research on the integration of Information Communications Technology (ICT) for enhanced STEM education in African schools and universities.Featuring critical discussion and illustration of key data-led arguments, this volume gives a comprehensive picture of the breadth, complexity, and diversity of issues present in different African countries. It highlights a diverse range of topics such as approaches to ICT integration, the use of digital technologies to support inquiry-based learning, teacher development, and contextual issues in ICT integration for STEM education. Chapters feature contributions and shared experiences from prominent science educators and researchers from across African regions, and demonstrate findings and reflections on emerging trends, pedagogical innovations, and research-informed practices on ICT integration in STEM education.Offering cutting-edge research on STEM and digital education in Africa, the book will appeal to researchers, postgraduate students, and scholars in the fields of STEM education, ICT education, digital education, and pedagogy.