Global perspectives on e-learning : rhetoric and reality / Alison A. Carr-Chellman, editor. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005. - vii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

China's online education : rhetoric and realities / The gap between e-learning availability and e-learning industry development in Taiwan / Distance education and online technologies in India / Online learning and differential participation in a democratic society : Ireland as a case study / E-learning, democracy, and social exclusion : issues of access and retention in the United Kingdom / International study circles / A critical look at distance education in Turkey / Canada's SchoolNet : wiring up schools? / The new frontier : Web-based education in U.S. culture / New Zealand : is online education a highway to the future? / Towards borderless virtual learning in higher education / Development and democracy in Namibia : the contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) / Can you lead from behind? : critical reflections on the rhetoric of e-learning, open distance learning, and ICTs for development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) / Stalled : e-learning as thwarted innovation / Ke Zhang -- Jiang Jia Qi -- Priya Sharma -- Sarah FitzPatrick, Paul Conway -- Ormond Simpson -- Ben Salt -- Husra Gursoy -- Leslie R. Shade, Diane Y. Dechief -- Alison A. Carr-Chellman -- Bill Anderson -- Colin Latchem -- R. Kavena Shalyef, Hilda Nakakuwa -- Wayne Mackintosh -- Robert Zemsky, William F. Massy.

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Distance education.
Education--Effect of technological innovations on.
Educational technology--Social aspects.

LC 5800 / .G56 2005