Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training

The Enabling Technologies.- A Typology of Learning Object Repositories.- Adaptive Hypermedia.- Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning.- Design and Case Studies on Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Education.- Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing.- Designing Contextualized Learning.- Virtual and Augmented Reality.- Learning Design: Concepts.- Competence Models in Technology-Enhanced Competence-Based Learning.- Learner Modelling Through Analyzing Cognitive Skills and Learning Styles.- Turning Potentials into Reality: Achieving Sustainable Quality in E-Learning Through Quality Competence.- Integration of Learning and Working: Convergent Processes and Systems.- The E-Pedagogy.- Bridging the Gap Between Face-to-Face and Cyber Interaction in Holistic Blended Learning Environments.- Complex Domain Learning.- Communities of Practice.- Business Models for the Sustainable Implementation of E-Learning at Universities.- The Role of Competence Assessment in the Different Stagesof Competence Development.- The Organisational Perspective.- The Future of E-Learning in Schools.- An Executable Model for Virtual Campus Environments.- Corporate Universities.- Lessons from Africa.- The African Virtual University.

From the reviews:"Part of the publisher's series of 'International handbooks on information systems', this is a great fat book which does indeed concentrate on the technical side rather than on pedagogy. ... its concern is the design and implementation of hardware/software systems (including networks) for educational and training contexts ... . Its more than forty chapters each describe relevant research and practice and close with invaluable reference lists; the book itself has a fairly lengthy and detailed index - also invaluable." (British Journal of Education Technology, Vol. 33 (3), 2002)