This is a really useful and wide ranging collection of chapters authored by those very much at the virtual classroom interface", that is everyday teachers in Higher Education who are attempting to realise the potential offered by ELearning. Within their accounts can be found some wonderful insights into what works and what does not. Readers will also find this collection a rich resource of ideas to be mined repeatedly as a reader's own practice changes and devlopes."
– Dr. John Bernardes, The University of Wolverhampton, UK
A book that you will keep referring to when dealing with the myriad of issues surrounding the use of technology to support learning and teaching. An invaluable reference for teaching and support staff.
– Helen Carter, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Australia
This book offers a useful introduction to the challenges and opportunities involved in integrating technology applications into higher-education contexts. The combined research and focus make it useful for instructors, researchers, technology-support staff, and administrators in a variety of higher-education and adult-education contexts.
– Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4, (August 2007)
Their nineteen contributions are well planned, well developed, well written - and, between them, they cover a lot of ground of interest to secondary and post-secondary teachers as well as to those in universities.
– British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (2007)