International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments

Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments.- Rethinking the Virtual.- A History of E-learning: Shift Happened.- Towards Philosophy of Technology in Education: Mapping the Field.- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century.- Teaching and Transformation: Donna Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" and Its Influence in Computer-Supported Composition Classrooms.- The Political Economy of the Internet: Contesting Capitalism, the Spirit of Informationalism, and Virtual Learning Environments.- The Influence of ASCII on the Construction of Internet-Based Knowledge.- Interaction, Collusion, and the Human-Machine Interface.- Technological Transformation, Multiple Literacies, and the Re-visioning of Education.- Cyberpedagogy.- Re-situating Constructionism.- Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management.- Realizing the Internet's Educational Potential.- Virtual Schools: Reflections on Key Issues.- Time, Space, and Virtuality: The Role of Virtual Learning Environments in Time and Spatial Structuring.- Motivational Perspectives on Students' Responses to Learning in Virtual Learning Environments.- User Adaptation in Supporting Exploration Tasks in Virtual Learning Environments.- Collaborative Text-Based Virtual Learning Environments.- Designing Virtual Learning Environments for Academic Language Development.- Inclusive E-learning.- Displacing Student-Teacher Equilibrium in Virtual Learning Environments.- Rural South African Teachers "Move Home" in an Online Ecology.- Virtual Communities of Practice.- Increasing the Democratic Value of Research through Professional Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs).- Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education "Down Under".- Technology and Culture in OnlineEducation: Critical Reflections on a Decade of Distance Learning.- Global Perspective on Political Definitions of E-learning: Commonalities and Differences in National Educational Technology Strategy Discourses.- An Overview of Virtual Learning Environments in the Asia-Pacific: Provisos, Issues, and Tensions.- Global Online Education.- Global Virtual Organizations for Online Educator Empowerment.- An Online Journal as a Virtual Learning Environment: The Case of the Teachers College Record.- Professional Development & Knowledge Management via Virtual Spaces.- Out-Of-School Virtual Learning Environments.- Cemeteries, Oak Trees, and Black and White Cows: Newcomers' Understandings of the Networked World.- The eLibrary and Learning.- Beyond MuseumWalls: An Exploration of the Origins and Futures of Web-Based, Museum Education Outreach.- Genealogical Education: Finding Internet-Based Educational Content for Hobbyist Genealogists.- Downtime on the Net: The Rise of Virtual Leisure Industries.- Education, Gaming, and Serious Play.- E-learning Environments for Health Care: Advantages, Risks, and Implications.- E-Democracy: Media-Liminal Space in the Era of Age Compression.- SonicMemorial.org-The Virtual Memorial as a Vehicle for Rethinking Virtual Learning Environments.- "Why don't We Trade Places. ": Some Issues Relevant for the Analysis of Diasporic Web Communities as Learning Spaces.- Exploring the Production of Race Through Virtual Learning Environments.- Engaging the Disney Effect: The Cultural Production of Escapism and Utopia in Media.- "A SmallWorld After All": L. M. Montgomery's Imagined Avonlea as Virtual Landscape.- Slash Fiction/Fanfiction.- A Critical Eye for the Queer Text: Reading and Writing Slash Fiction on (the) Line.- Challenges for VirtualLearning Environments.- Chromosoft Mirrors.- Net: Geography Fieldwork Frequently Asked Questions.- Hacktivism: The How and Why of Activism for the Digital Age.- Weblogs and Collaborative Web Publishing as Learning Spaces.- Procedural Discourse Networks:Weblogs, Self-organizations and Successive Models for Academic Peer Review.- Wikis: Collaborative Virtual Learning Environments.- Partying Like it's 1999: On the Napsterization of Cultural Artifacts Via Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Virtual Harlem as a Collaborative Learning Environment: A Project of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Lab.- Video-as-Data and Digital Video Manipulation Techniques for Transforming Learning Sciences Research, Education, and Other Cultural Practices.- ePresence Interactive Media and Webforum 2001: An Accidental Case Study on the Use of Webcasting as a VLE for Early Child Development.- Networked Scholarship.- Analysis of Log File Data to Understand Behavior and Learning in an Online Community.- Reconstructing the Fables:Women on the Educational Cyberfrontier.- (Inorganic) Community Design Models and the Place of (In)appropriate Technology in International Development-What if More Than "Half the World" Wants Internet Access?.- Broadband Technologies, Techno-Optimism and the "Hopeful" Citizen.- The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion.- Learning by Being: Thirty Years of Cyborg Existemology.