Web-Based Learning through Educational Informatics: Information Science Meets Educational Computing

Web-Based Learning through Educational Informatics: Information Science Meets Educational Computing

Nigel Ford
Release Date: April, 2008|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 406
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-741-6
ISBN13: 9781599047416|ISBN10: 1599047411|EISBN13: 9781599047430
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Educational informatics represents the convergence of key aspects of information science, computing, and education while exploiting Web-based techniques and standards. This book provides a rigorous definition of and theoretical framework for educational informatics, while relating to the human aspects of educational information systems.

Web-Based Learning Through Educational Informatics: Information Science Meets Educational Computing explores the role of information seeking and retrieval in the development of information systems to support personalized and autonomous learning by introducing key concepts from information science.

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This book seeks to establish a more rigorous definition of – and an integrated conceptual framework for – educational informatics.

– Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, UK

This book offers a series of rigorous definitions and standards that will integrate information and communications technology (ICT) with education and library information science.

– Book News Inc. (August 2008)
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Nigel Ford is Professor of Information Science at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include: effective teaching and learning in higher education; educational informatics; cognitive and learning styles; user modelling for adaptive systems; information seeking; and creativity. He has led a number of funded research projects in the areas of student-centred learning, cognitive and learning styles, and information seeking. He has published extensively in international peer reviewed journals, and has authored 4 books on aspects of artificial intelligence. He is Director of Research for the Department of Information Studies at Sheffield, and is Head of its Educational Informatics Research Group.
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