The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education

ISBN: 978-1-118-01381-6

Paperback

512 pages

June 2011, Jossey-Bass

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Active and authoritative author. Curt Bonk, described by Business Wire as an "e-learning guru," has a blog called TravelinEdMan and does about 100 presentations a year on e-learning to audiences from school teachers to Microsoft executives. He has a huge number of connections in the education and technology communities, including many of the people he interviewed for the book--like Tim Berners Lee, Mark Andreessen, and David Wiley of Educommons--and hs received glowing endorsements from a diverse array--from Gaston Caperton, president of The College Board to Scott McNealy, head of Sun Microsystems.
Hot topic. 21st -Century learning focuses on the use of technology to extend opportunties globally.
Comprehensive and practical resource. Extensive coverage of all of the trends with practical examples of where they are working best.
Additional free materials online. Additional examples, resources, references, and questions for discussion on each trend covered are on the author's web site (worldisopen.com).