Short Guides to Managing Learning

New - Short Guides to Managing Learning
This important new series provides distilled, practitioner focussed guides to helping students to learn. Each book - about 100 A5 pages - helps the teacher or the manager to adapt to and develop efficient, student centred practices that enable students to work and study independently, using available educational technology. The guides are practice based. Each guide takes a specific aspect of learning management and presents a range of current good practice using case studies and examples. The materials are relevant for teachers at all levels of post-16 education. The series is provides excellent resources at teacher friendly prices. The first three books in the series are:
Managing On-Line Learning Gunter Saunders Provides a comprehensive overview on the use of computers and computer networks for learning. The book evaluates the educational contribution of IT to the general management of learning. It covers the basic issues of using software and hardware. the creation and use of learning environments on intranets, use of the internet and the necessary student activities to locate, evaluate and retrieve information.
Managing Student Learning Lynette Hurley and Jane Smith An increasing emphasis is being placed on students learning independently in post 16 and undergraduate education. This book clearly and simply addresses the advantages of augmenting teaching with managed learning, and covers the skills and practices needed to create diverse, rich, efficient and successful student learning experiences.
Managing the Learning Environment John Hurley and Jane Smith This book provides a clear guide to teachers and managers in post-16 and university education to the strategies and structures necessary to create a successful environment for students learning. Using the concepts of an infrastructure and an appropriate culture for learning it covers what institutions must provide and address to create high quality learning environments. The book argues that institutional cultures and management practices in recent years have not been appropriate argues that we must create new and more successful models.