Technologies and Distance Education with Focus on Teacher Training

Using distance-based technologies for emergency medicine training and education.

Cost-effective and sustainable ways of continuing to improve emergency medical services and education worldwide must be pursued if the field is to continue to expand globally. Distance-based learning and the use of telecommunications advances present us with an ideal opportunity to improve international medical education. Such technologies can overcome the financial and logistic constraints of ...

GRID Technologies => 'Education' = 'Distance Education'

This paper discusses the new possibilities that Grid technologies create in education, presents current learning paradigms and makes a prediction about the way in which Grid technologies may affect the future of education. The case of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) is presented and the current educational technologies and tools used are illustrated. The paper also presents a scenario for th...

Distance Education and Teaching Issues: Are Teacher Training and Compensation Keeping Up with Institutional Demands?

Mobile Technologies and Distance Education

Rapid advancement of information and communication technologies enables to produce more mobile devices. Most of distance education students need access to study materials, communications tools and further learning means not only at home and in their working place, but for example on business trips. Therefore it is necessary during the design of e-learning education not to forget also mobile dev...

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education is an open access book showcasing how emerging participatory technologies have been used in online distance education. In this session, the editor will discuss current issues and future directions for using emerging technologies with special attention to pedagogical, technological, cultural, and social factors that influence the adoption and successfu...