In July of 2010, I published Emerging Technologies in Distance Education with Athabasca University Press. The book was published in print (for purchase) and e-book (open access) format. In the spirit of openness, I shared the book’s download statistics, one year after publication. It’s time for an update. Here it goes…
Writing an academic book is not about royalties. I’m elated when people read my work, and the value of that is immeasurable. So, thank you to all of you who downloaded and read this book – and above all, thank you, once again, to all the authors who contributed to this volume.
The most recent download statistics, 3 years after publication, show that:
- The full book was downloaded approximately 12,000 times.
- The full book and individual chapters were downloaded about 32,000 times.
- The three most downloaded chapters were:
- Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning (pdf)
Alec Couros - Personal Learning Environments (pdf)
Trey Martindale & Michael Dowdy - A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education (pdf)
George Veletsianos
- Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning (pdf)
The download statistics, broken down by month, are as follows:
The book, or chapters of it, have been used in the following courses:
- EDTECH 597: Social Network Learning, Boise State University (Fall, 2010)
- EDU 7271: Information and Communication: Social and Conventional Networks, Northeastern University (Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
- EDU 6407: Essentials of Multimedia for Distance Learning, Northeastern University (Spring 2011)
- PLENK 2010: Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge, Athabasca University and the University of Prince Edward Island (Fall, 2010)
- OLIT 538: E-learning Course Design, University of New Mexico (Fall, 2010)
- EDUC60602: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, University of Manchester, UK (Spring 2011)
- EDEE 203: Technology in Education, The Open University of the Philippines.
- EDTC 6432: Computer Authoring, Seattle Pacific University
- EDLD 871 Special Topics in Instructional Leadership: Focus on K-12 Virtual Schools, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Emerging Technologies to Improve Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Cape Higher Education Consortium (University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, University of the Western Cape, Cape Peninsula University of Technology)
- Exploring Personal Learning Networks: Practical issues for organizations (Fall 2013), Northwestern University
- EDU-681100, Learning with Emerging Technologies: Theory and Practice, (Fall 2013), State University of New York, Empire State College
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