Elearning Bassoppo-Moyo, T.C. (2006). Evaluating

ELearning Bassoppo-Moyo, T.C. (2006). Evaluating eLearning: A Front-End, Process and Post Hoc Approach. International Journal of Instructional Media, 33(1), 7. This article explains the importance of developing evaluation techniques and technologies for elearning technologies, so as to increase efficacy and effective utilization by students in the future. The article demonstrates various ways in which applications of elearning can be effectively evaluated to develop new and better ways to meet students and to better demonstrate the teaching that is being attempted in the application.

The author of the article is a PhD teaching at Illinois State University, a campus that is testing and utilizing various elearning technologies for use in the higher education setting. The audience of the piece is educators who may potentially fall back on the promise of the technology and not feel the need to evaluate its effectiveness.

In comparison to other works in this biography the work is demonstrative e of caution rather than simply relying of the promise of elearning as a new and exciting way to bring information to people all over the world. This work helps to illuminate the need for caution and reflective assessment to make elearning the best it can be. Bilyk, R. (2005).

eLearning That Goes beyond Text and Graphics: Minnesota Educators Use lodeStar to Bring Cyber Village Academy into the Homes and Hospitals of Ill and Injured Home-Schooled Children the Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), 33(2), 36. This work demonstrates the evolution of elearning, as it has progressed over the years to incorporate not only the flashy examples of learning software in the past but the communicative function that allows students interaction amongst themselves and instructors to broaden the learning experience and make it more comparable to the classroom situation, without losing its convenience.

"Robert Bilyk is the director of CyberVillage Academy, and co-director of lodestar Learning Corp.

(www.lodeStarLearning.com) He holds an MEd in curriculum and instructional systems, and has been engaged in computer-assisted instruction at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels for the past 20 years." The work is strategically expressive of the value and growth of elearning technology, and how it can better serve the learning environment, in ways that are even better than in the past, it speaks to an audience who might be reluctant to utilize elearning, assuming its technology is similar to its first applications, just a few years ago.

The work develops a sense of how far the technology has developed and continues to illuminate its promise for the future, contrasting to some more conservative views, expressed by other works in this bibliography. Broadbent, B. (2002). ABCs of E-Learning: Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Pitfalls. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer. This book is a rather large and comprehensive definitive text on elearning, its evolving technology and the demonstrative negative and positive aspects of its use.

The work defined ways in which the technology can be utilized for all its possibility, while still cautiously avoiding any potential pitfalls of its application, such as disconnect that some of its participants feel and technology deterioration of misuse. The author is a strong proponent of elearning and the founder of an interactive elearning information group that can better collect the ideas and needs of others to grow elearning and its technology, called elearninghub. He also teaches via elearning and about it worldwide.

The audience is educators who are struggling with elearning applications or contemplating its application. This work is well rounded but clearly written by an individual who is a proponent of elearning. The contrast to other works in this bibliography is that the book is exceedingly comprehensive and reflective of possible problems as well as possibilities of elearning. It is in short a canonical text for any bibliography discussing elearning. Brown, J. (2007).

On Target: Using Technology to Pinpoint Problem Academic Areas Can Enable Students to Catch Up, Keep Up, and Get Ahead the Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), 34(1), 18. This article demonstrates ways in which elearning can be utilized as a tool to recognize trouble areas for students and correct them in some cases. It is specific to the utilization of elearning, and especially specialized software to elicit solutions to problems where an individual educator may not be able to easily identify or rectify easily without loosing instructional time for other students.

The author is a frequent contributor to an educational journal illuminating issues of technology integration in education (the Journal Technology Horizons in Education). The work speaks of the possibilities of utilizing technology to identify and assist students who may be having complex or even simple problems in learning traditional materials and is guised in a rather positive light, compared to other works that are more cautious.

The work outlines yet another way that elearning can be utilized as a supplement to traditional teaching methods, therefore adding to the value of the bibliography. Buendia-Garcia, F., & Diaz, P. (2003). A Framework for the Specification of the Semantics and the Dynamics of Instructional Applications. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 12(4), 399. This article outlines suggestions for a modulated template or standard for the development of elearning software.

The work, though rather complicated, technologically is demonstrative of the need for the development fo some sort of standardization among programmers with regard to applications of elearning. The authors are both Spanish educators in prestigious universities in Spain and are particularly knowledgeable about the design and application of elearning technology. The work is directed mainly at programmers, who are developing or proposing the development of technologies for elearning application.

The work, as compared to others in this bibliography is very technology based, and reflective of the ideas of the new generation of programmers who wish to step away from the diversity of programming and instead create a more streamlined approach to technology-based learning. Burgess, H. & Taylor, O. (Eds.). (2004). Effective Learning and Teaching in Social Policy and Social Work. New York: RoutledgeFalmer. This work is demonstrative of the move to educate social workers as a specialized field in increasing formats, i.e.

To reach students who would not have had the technology available to them either for continuing education or initial education, via elearning platforms. The authors are both social work educators in favor of establishing a greater dissemination of information through elearning, and their audience is educators and university administrators. This work plays an important role in illuminating how specialized (especially human services) education can reach a broader audience through the convenience of elearning, and therefore important to this bibliography. Carlivati, P.A. (2002). E-Learning Evolve. ABA Banking Journal, 94(6), 49.

This short article demonstrates the application of elearning and its evolution in industry continuing education and how it has allowed growing businesses to get everyone on the same page in a way that does not interfere with business. The author is "Peter a. Carlivati, group director, business planning and analysis, Professional Development Group, American Bankers Association," and therefore very knowledgeable on one of the industry leaders in the utilization of elearning gin industry, specifically the banking industry.

Again this demonstrate the application of elearning in industry, an oft forgotten aspect of its utilization, important for a full understanding of the breadth of the topic for this bibliography as well as for the intended audience, bank industry leaders trying to find ways to teach important information to employees without disrupting business. Fletcher, G.H. (2006). K-12, Meet Higher Ed: The Two Arms of Our Education System Have Much to Gain in Recognizing Their Common Ground the Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), 33(14), 6.

This work demonstrates a clear example of how elearning can bridge the distance between compulsory elementary and secondary education and higher education. The application of this principle, is challenging but stresses the need to develop ways to make the transition between the two smoother so more people will make it. The authors are strong advocates as educators of bridging this distance through education and their audience is educators and administrators with similar goals.

The article is clearly another bit of information for this bibliography that demonstrates the diversity of elearning applications and the prospects of their use. It is independent of other articles in his bibliography because it has a novel topic focus, but is relevant due to its content. Fox, C. (2006). Going Virtual: Online Courses Can Get to People and Places beyond the Reach of the Traditional School Setting, Serving the Needs of Students and Teachers Nationwide the Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), 33(12), 6.

This is a general description of elearning posibilties and technologies, creating a relatively new outlook, or most current outlook with regard to elearning and its application possibilities. The author of the work is targeting the general public, to reinforce the possibilities of the elearning systems available today as well as educators and gives a more updated and expanded simple view of the topic for the purposes of this bibliography and as a reflection of emerging technologies not evident in the explanatory book above, but it is rather simplistic.

Gutl, C., & Pivec, M. (2003). A Multimedia Knowledge Module Virtual Tutor Fosters Interactive Learning. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 14(2), 231. This work demonstrates an example of how software can and has been developed to be interactive in the learning process, and especially good for tutoring individuals on concepts they have previously been challenged by. The authors are both international educators from Austria reviewing emerging developments in elearning technology through the journal venue.

The work is important to this bibliography and its audience of educators as it outlines the development of interactive technologies that more naturally answer remedial instruction. Knowlton, D.S. (2005). A Taxonomy of Learning through Asynchronous Discussion. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 16(2), 155. The challenges and development of discussion models of elearning are outlined here as so much progress has been made in this area with regard to elearning technology and application.

Discussion formatting and investment of interactive student environments has been something frequently seen as a barrier to elearning applications and many problems are now solved or being solved. The authors are educators and contributors to a journal dedicated to watching elearning and other education technology emerge into use. The audience of this work is again educators and it applies some of the traditional concerns of the elearning environment, i.e. The stifling of discussion and interaction between participants and instructors.

This makes it important o the bibliography and similar to the other works in this work that are identifying and eradicating myths about elearning technological development. Late Breaks. (2000) the Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), 27(11), 22. This work demonstrates an example of a particular partnership between several educational entities to bring elearning technology to underserved populations. The work describes developmental technology acceptance and hopefully utilization in areas where technology has been underutilized and student shave been neglected.

The author is the editor of the Journal and is demonstrating a success story to an audience of any who will read it. The work is important to this bibliography as it outlines acceptance in the educational community of utilizing elearning effectively to reach those who have been challenged by technology learning in the past. Littlejohn, a. (Ed.). (2003). Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-Learning. London: Kogan Page.

Technology and elearning, in the past have been focused on developing newer and better systems to facilitate the process, the editors and contributors of this work stress the need to use old systems as models and to actually trickle down the older technology to other areas, so as to disseminate and create sustainability in the industry. This approach is novel even though it seems to be accepted by many in principle but not applied, for lack of networks to do so.

The editors and contributors of this work are all experts in the elearning field and are stressing this need in a novel way, it is unlike any other book in this bibliography but offers sustainable goals and needs that reflect current civic social responsibility, and should be heeded by the education audience. Mitchem, K., Wells, D.L., & Wells, J.G. (2003). Effective Integration of Instructional Technologies (it): Evaluating Professional Development and Instructional Change. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 11(3), 397.

This work demonstrates best and worse case scenarios where integration between technologies is needed. The work is a proponent of elearning but like other works in this bibliography demands that the systems available answer to the need to integrate technology to develop better more seamless delivery of technology-based learning to students. The authors are teacher educators and see again a specialized need to utilize elearning to teach disseminated populations, without disrupting their work.

The importance of this article for this bibliography is the fact that it stresses the use of elearning in an additional specialized field, that of teacher education, which will make those future educators more comfortable with the medium in the future. Mobile Science Center Brings High-Tech Experimentation to Remote Parts of South Africa. (2003) the Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), 31(1), 41.

This article demonstrates an elearning technology that has created opportunities for people in areas that have been internationally, traditionally underserved and shows the scientific and education audience how success can be had sharing such information in this elearning setting. The importance of this work is that it demonstrates successes of elearning in international scientific communities which have traditionally been in isolation of one another and have therefore been unable to collaborate effectively.

It is different from other works in the bibliography because it offers an even more specialized and positive application that reflects globalization. Morrison, D. (2003). E-Learning Strategies: How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time. New York: Wiley. This is an outline for educators, applying elearning technologies, a sort of checklist that aides in novel applications of elearning technologies to reduce the stress of potential failure of systems. The book is written again by an expert in elearning technology but offers the application information in language that.