Book Review: Handbook of online learning. Innovations in higher education and corporate training
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604 Book reviews assumptions (nearly) hold. Nevertheless, this bookis nice, interesting and well written and it should easily find a wide audience. Reviewed by Marek Brabec, Department of Bio-statistics, National Institute of Public Health, Praha, Czech Republic. Rudestam KE and Schoenholtz-Read J, eds. 2002:Handbook of online learning. Innovations in higher education and corporate training. Thousand Oaks,CA, USA and London, UK: Sage Publications Inc. x + 460 pp. UK #39.00 (PB) (US $49.95).ISBN 0 7619 2403 5. Two psychologists from the Fielding Gradu-ate Institute (in Santa Barbara, CA, USA), Kjell Erik Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz-Read, haveedited a fine piece of 20 original chapters related to some of the current issues and recent innova-tions in online learning. Topics are various, from the wide perspectives on computer mediated learningand organization design to the ethical dimensions of online teaching, curriculum design, leadershipfor online administration, adult learners, organizational learning and even the possible uses ofvirtual cafe's. In their short preface, the two editors write that `A primary purpose of this handbookis to explore the conceptual and pedagogical issues concerned with electronic teaching over electronicnetworks'. Rudestam and Schoenholtz-Read also explain that their Handbook of Online Learningis essentially meant to serve as a practical tool