call for book chapters

[Tiffini Travis]

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Call for Book Chapters

Submission Deadline:  August 20th 2004

 

E-learning and Business Plans: National and International Case Studies

Edited by Elaina Norlin and Tiffini Travis (MLIS)

elaina_j at yahoo.com <mailto:elaina_j at yahoo.com> ,  ttravis at csulb.edu 
<mailto:ttravis at csulb.edu>

 

Introduction:   To effectively plan for changes in technology and 
pedagogy for online learning which in many cases is a high risk/high 
cost proposition, an organization should draft a comprehensive business 
plan. E-learning can most easily be defined as Internet enabled learning 
that fuses education and technology to facilitate the acquisition of 
knowledge. For the purposes of our book we are limiting the definition 
of E-learning to include commercial and educational websites that 
deliver e-learning content to individuals in an academic or business 
setting such as the Resource Discovery Networkhttp://www.rdn.ac.uk/ , 
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching 
(MERLOT) http://www.merlot.org <http://www.merlot.org/> and the 
Community of Learning Program for the Southeast Florida Information 
Network (SEFLIN) http://clp.mylibraryservice.org/ . Each chapter of the 
book will highlight an organizations? experience with developing 
strategic business plans specifically for the management of e-learning 
products.

 

The Overall Objective of the Book :  The proposed book aims to provide a 
comprehensive view on how to develop non-profit business plans for both 
small and large scale e-learning projects.  The national and 
international case studies will cover many facets of a typical non 
profit business plan and relevant experiences while developing the 
project. 

 

The Target Audience : This book will be useful to professionals, 
non-profit organizations and academic researchers who are currently 
considering working on large scale e-learning or high cost/high risk 
projects.  Moreover, it will serve as a resource for students working on 
relevant projects.

 

Topics of E-learning may focus on, but are not restricted to:  

?        Business Plan 101:   Steps for Non Profit Organizations

?        Vision/Planning: Planning for technology: challenges and pitfalls

?        Personnel: Managing personnel in an e-learning environment

?        Positioning/Marketing:   Developing an unique selling point

?        Collaboration:   National and international partnerships for 
e-learning

?        Evaluation: Design, usability and navigation of e-learning products

?        Financial Feasibility: How to determine if your large scale 
project will produce results

 

Submission Procedure:   Researchers and practitioners are invited to 
send 2-3 pages on or before August 20th 2004 detailing the background, 
motivations and structure of the proposed chapter.   All chapter 
proposals will be competitively reviewed.   Authors of the accepted 
proposals will be notified by September 10th 2004 on the status of their 
proposals. Full proposals, due on December 5 th 2004, should be between 
15-20 double-spaced pages formatted according to the guidelines provided 
upon acceptance of the chapter proposal.  

 

Please send all inquiries and submissions (preferably though email as 
Word files) to:

Tiffini Travis
Psychology & Communications Librarian
CSU Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach , CA 90841   Ph: 562/985-7850  Fax: 562/985-1703
ttravis at csulb.edu <mailto:ttravis at csulb.edu>

 


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Tiffini A. Travis
Psychology & Communication Studies Librarian
California State University, Long Beach
ttravis at csulb.edu
Voice:  562- 985-7850
Fax:  562-985-1703
To Request a Lecture: http://scheduler.library.csulb.edu/LibInstrSessRequest.asp






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