Pragmatics of Human Communication A Study of Interactional Patterns Pathologies and Paradoxes

The properties and function of human communication.

Author: Paul Watzlawick

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393707076

Category: Psychology

Page: 284

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For the first time, a new generation of readers will have the opportunity to experience the ideas set forth in Pragmatics of Human Communication, a book that formed the foundation of much research into interpersonal communication in the latter portion of the 20th century. A new preface by Bill O'Hanlon puts Watzlawick's work in context for readers in this new paperback edition. Topics covered in this wide-ranging book include: the origins of communication; the idea that all behavior is communication; meta-communcation; the properties of an open system; the family as a system of communication; the nature of paradox in psychotherapy; existentialism and human communication. After defining certain general concepts, the authors present basic characteristics of human communication and illustrate their manifestations and potential pathologies. Then the systemic aspects of human interactions that arise from the patterning of specific characteristics of communication are exemplified by the analysis of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Theorizing Communication

SOME TENTATIVE AXIOMS OF COMMUNICATION PAUL WATZLAWICK ,
JANET HELMICK BEAVIN , AND Don D. JACKSON ... Pragmatics of human
communication : A study of interactional patterns , pathologies , and paradoxes (
pp .

Author: Robert T. Craig

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 1412952379

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Presents the collection of primary-source readings built around the idea that communication theory is a field with an identifiable history and has developed within seven main traditions of thought - the rhetorical, semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, sociopsychological, sociocultural, and critical traditions.
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Encyclopedia of Communication Theory

But it was not until the publication of The Pragmatics of Human Communication:
A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes by Watzlawick,
Beavin, and Jackson in 1976 that communication scholars became fully aware of
 ...

Author: Stephen W. Littlejohn

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781412959377

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 1105

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The Encyclopedia of Communication Theory provides students and researchers with a comprehensive two-volume overview of contemporary communication theory. Reference librarians report that students frequently approach them seeking a source that will provide them with a quick overview of a particular theory or theorist - just enough to help them grasp the general concept or theory and its relation to the discipline as a whole. Communication scholars and teachers also occasionally need a quick reference for theories. Edited by the co-authors of the best-selling textbook on communication theory and drawing on the expertise of an advisory board of 10 international scholars and nearly 200 contributors from 10 countries, this work finally provides such a resource. More than 300 entries address topics related not only to paradigms, traditions, and schools, but also metatheory, methodology, inquiry, and applications and contexts. Entries cover several orientations, including psycho-cognitive; social-interactional; cybernetic and systems; cultural; critical; feminist; philosophical; rhetorical; semiotic, linguistic, and discursive; and non-Western. Concepts relate to interpersonal communication, groups and organizations, and media and mass communication. In sum, this encyclopedia offers the student of communication a sense of the history, development, and current status of the discipline, with an emphasis on the theories that comprise it.
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Theories of Human Communication

1 For recent brief overviews of this area, see L. Edna Rogers, “Relational
Communication Theory,” in Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, ... Paul
Watzlawick, Janet Beavin, and Don Jackson, Pragmatics of Human
Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes (
New York: Norton, 1967).

Author: Stephen W. Littlejohn

Publisher: Waveland Press

ISBN: 9781478609391

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 487

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For almost four decades, Theories of Human Communication has offered readers an engaging and informative guide to the rich array of theories that influence our understanding of communication. The first edition broke new ground with its comprehensive discussion of theorizing by communication scholars. Since that time, the field has expanded tremendously from a small cluster of explanations and relatively unconnected theories to a huge body of work from numerous traditions or communities of scholarship. The tenth edition covers both classic and recent theories created by communication scholars and informed by scholars in other fields. Littlejohn and Foss organize communication theory around two intersecting elementscontexts and theoretical traditionsand emphasize the connections, trajectories, and relationships among the theories. They provide clear, accessible explanations that synthesize without oversimplifying. Their extensive use of examples presents theorizing as a natural process and invites readers to reflect on their own experiences and to become active participants in continuing the conversation. In addition to the authors lucid explanations of theories, the text includes From the Source boxes in which the theorists share their perspectives on communication. The extensive bibliography (almost 1,200 entries) and chapter citations are invaluable resources for more in-depth study.
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Nursing Theories

Kinästhetik—Gesundheitsentwicklung und Menschliche Funktionen [Kinesthetic
—Health development and human functionings. Ullstein ... Pragmatics of human
communication: A study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes.

Author: Hesook Suzie Kim, PhD, RN

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISBN: 0826140068

Category: Medical

Page: 309

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Designated a Doody's Core Title! This second edition is the perfect companion to original theoretical works in nursing for a better understanding of both the theories themselves and the essential questions about nursing theory development. Rather than being a nursing theory survey, the text provides the reader with a deeper understanding of nursing theories through examining them in their conceptual and philosophical contexts. This is a work of international collaboration, with distinguished nurse scholars from the United States, Germany, and Norway, organized around major themes in nursing and health care into which information on specific nursing theories is integrated. It is designed for advanced nursing students, educators, and others interested in nursing theory and concepts. For Further Information, Please Click Here! Please note that this website is in German!
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Interpersonal Communication

See Thomas Hora in Paul H. Watzlawick, Janet H. Beavin, and Don D. Jackson,
Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns,
Pathologies, and Paradoxes, New York: Norton, 1967. William Schutz, The
Interpersonal ...

Author: Teri Kwal Gamble

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISBN: 9781483322049

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 496

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Written in a conversational style for students living in today's world of ever-evolving media and new technology, this hands-on skills guide by Teri Kwal Gamble and Michael W. Gamble puts students at the center of interpersonal communication. To help them become better, more successful communicators, married author team Teri Kwal Gamble and Michael Gamble shed new light on the dynamics of students' everyday interactions and relationships, and give students the tools they need to develop and cultivate effective communication skills. Using an applied, case-study approach that draws from popular culture and students' own experiences, Gamble and Gamble go beyond skill building by encouraging readers to critically reflect on their own communication patterns and actively apply relevant theory to develop and maintain healthy relationships with family, friends, romantic partners, and co-workers. Designed to promote self-reflection and develop students' interpersonal communication skills, each chapter of this engaging text examines how media, technology, gender, and culture affect the dynamics of relationships and self-expression.
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The SAGE Handbook of Interpersonal Communication

Pragmatics of human communication: A study of interactional patterns,
pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: W. W. Norton. Whorf, B. L. (1956).
Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (J. B.
Carroll, Ed.).

Author: Mark L. Knapp

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISBN: 9781483341507

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 800

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The revised Fourth Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Interpersonal Communication delivers a clear, comprehensive, and exciting overview of the field of interpersonal communication. It offers graduate students and faculty an important, state-of-the-art reference work in which well-known experts summarize theory and current research. The editors also explore key issues in the field, including personal relationships, computer-mediated communication, language, personality, skills, nonverbal communication, and communication across a person's life span. This updated handbook covers a wide range of established and emerging topics, including: Biological and Physiological Processes Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Studying Interpersonal Communication Interpersonal Communication in Work, Family, Intercultural, and Health Contexts Supportive and Divisive Transactions Social Networks Editors Mark L. Knapp and John A. Daly have significantly contributed to the field of interpersonal communication with this important reference work—a must-have for students and scholars.
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Conflict and Multimodal Communication

Social Research and Machine Intelligence Francesca D'Errico, Isabella Poggi,
Alessandro Vinciarelli, Laura Vincze. Peräkylä A, Sorjonen ML (2012) Emotion in
interaction. Oxford ... John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, PA
Watzlawick P, Helmick Beavin J, Jackson DD (1967) Pragmatics of human
communication. A study of interactional patterns, pathologies and paradoxes.
Norton & Co.

Author: Francesca D'Errico

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319140810

Category: Computers

Page: 479

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This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict. Traditional human sciences approaches are enriched with the latest developments in Social Signal Processing aimed at an automatic understanding of conflict and negotiation. Communication—both verbal and non-verbal, within the context of a conflict—is studied with the aim of promoting the use of intelligent machines that automatically measure and understand the escalation of conflict, and are able to manage it, in order to support the negotiation process. Particular attention is paid to the integration of human sciences findings with computational approaches, from the application of correct methodologies for the collection of valid data to the development of computational approaches inspired by research on verbal and multimodal communication. In the words of the trade unionist Pierre Carniti, "We should reevaluate conflict, since without conflict there is no social justice." With this in mind, this volume does not approach conflict simply as an obstacle to be overcome, but as a concept to be fully analyzed. The philosophical, linguistic and psychological aspects of conflict, once understood, can be used to promote conflict management as a means for change and social justice.
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AS Communication Studies

Watzlawick , P . , Beavin , J . H . , Jackson , D . D . ( 1967 ) Pragmatics of Human
Communication . A Study of Interactional Patterns , Pathologies , and Paradoxes ,
New York : Norton . Whorf , B . L . ( 1956 ) Language , Thought and Reality , ed .

Author: Andrew Beck

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 0415331188

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 294

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In full colour throughout and featuring new case studies, this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling AS Communication Studies covers all aspects of Communication Studies for students of the AS and A Level AQA syllabus. The authors, who are experienced teachers and examiners, introduce students step-by-step to the main forms of communication - verbal, non-verbal, intrapersonal and group; they provide guidance on developing effective communication skills and advise on how these skills can be used to prepare for examinations. Individual chapters cover: * studying communication * effective communication * text and meanings in communication * communication practice * themes in personal communication * using communication skills to pass exams. AS Communication Studiescovers every part of an introductory Communication Studies course and includes several useful features and study aids, including: * activities for the classroom and practical assignments for individual study * worked examination questions * suggestions for further reading * glossary of key terms * case studies showing how theoretical concepts can be applied in everyday situations.
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Compatible and Incompatible Relationships

Pragmatics of human communication: A study of interactional patterns,
pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: W. W. Norton. Watzlawick, P., Weakland,
J., & Fisch, R. (1974). Principles of problem formation and problem resolution.
New York.

Author: W. Ickes

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781461250449

Category: Psychology

Page: 388

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Several years ago, two of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to interview Fritz Heider-perhaps the most influential theorist in the field of social psychology (Harvey, Ickes, & Kidd, 1976). During our interview, Heider affirmed a belief that had guided his career since the 1920s, the belief that the study of human relationships is the most important task in which social scientists can engage. Although many social scientists would profess to share this belief, it is nonetheless true that the study of human relationships has been one of the most neglected tasks in the history of the social sciences-including psychology. What Heider found in the 1920s-that most psychologists acknowledged the importance of studying human relationships but at the same time tended to focus their own research on more "tractable" topics such as memory and cognition-is still very much evident in the 1980s. Even within the more specific domain of social psychology, a majority of researchers still choose to address those hybrid topics ("social cognition," "social categorization and stereotyping," "person memory," etc. ) that relate most directly to traditional areas of psychological research. Still other researchers, while choosing to study such important interpersonal phenomena as altruism, aggression, conflict, and interpersonal attraction, tend to focus so exclusively on these isolated and abstracted phenomena that they fail to provide a more inclusive view of the relationships in which these phenomena occur.
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Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy

Watzlawick, P., Beavin, J. H., & Jackson, D. D. (1967). Pragmatics of human
communication. A study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes.
New York: Norton. Weick, K. E. (1979). The social psychology of organizing.
Reading ...

Author: Salmons, Janet

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781605661070

Category: Computers

Page: 1026

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Offers exhaustive research on collaborations in education, business, and the government and social sectors.
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Families Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Pragmatics of human communication: A study of interactional patterns,
pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: Norton. This fascinating book is seminal
reading. It is a technical but classic book that details four axioms of
communication and ...

Author: Oxford University Press

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0199802319

Category: Social Science

Page: 30

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In social work, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Social Work, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of social work. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
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Essentials of Business Communication

Some tentative axioms of communication. in: Pragmatics of human
communication: A study of interactional patterns, pathologies and paradoxes.
New York: W. W. Norton. 25 birdwhistell, R. (1970). Kinesics and context.
Philadelphia: University ...

Author: Mary Ellen Guffey

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781133710905

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 592

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ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, 9TH EDITION presents a streamlined approach to business communication that includes unparalleled resources and author support for instructors and students. ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION provides a four-in-one learning package: authoritative text, practical workbook, self-teaching grammar/mechanics handbook, and premium Web site. Especially effective for students with outdated or inadequate language skills, the Ninth Edition offers extraordinary print and digital exercises to help students build confidence as they review grammar, punctuation, and writing guidelines. Textbook chapters teach basic writing skills and then apply these skills to a variety of e-mails, memos, letters, reports, and resumes. Realistic model documents and structured writing assignments help students build lasting workplace skills. The Ninth Edition of this award-winning text features increased coverage of electronic messages and digital media, redesigned and updated model documents to introduce students to the latest business communication practices, and extensively updated exercises and activities. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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Communication and Meaning

1968, Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns,
Pathologies and Paradoxes, Faber & Faber, London. Weakland, J. H.: 1960, 'The
“Double Bind” Hypothesis of Schizophrenia and ThreeParty Interaction', in Sluzki
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Author: A.J Jones

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400970694

Category: Philosophy

Page: 167

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This essay contains material which will hopefully be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to those social scientists whose research concerns the analysis of communication, verbal or non-verbal. Although most of the topics taken up here are central to issues in the philosophy of language, they are, in my opinion, indistinguishable from topics in descriptive social psychology. The essay aims to provide a conceptual framework within which various key aspects of communication can be described, and it presents a formal language, using techniques from modern modal logic, in which such descriptions can themselves be formulated. It is my hope that this framework, or parts of it, might also turn out to be of value in future empirical work. There are, therefore, essentially two sides to this essay: the development of a framework of concepts, and the construction of a formal language rich enough to express the elements of which that framework is composed. The first of these two takes its point of departure in the statement quoted from Lewis (1972) on the page preceding this introduction. The distinction drawn there by Lewis is accepted as a working hypothesis, and in one sense this essay may be seen as an attempt to explore some of the consequences of that hypothesis.
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Social Networks and Popular Understanding of Science and Health

The roles of interpersonal communication in mass media campaigns. In: Beck C,
editor. Communication ... Pragmatics of human communication: a study of
interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: Norton; 1967. 296
p. 12.

Author: Brian G. Southwell

Publisher: JHU Press

ISBN: 9781421413259

Category: Social Science

Page: 152

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Using social media and peer-to-peer networks to teach people about science and health may seem like an obvious strategy. Yet recent research suggests that systematic reliance on social networks may be a recipe for inequity. People are not consistently inclined to share information with others around them, and many people are constrained by factors outside of their immediate control. Ironically, the highly social nature of humankind complicates the extent to which we can live in a society united solely by electronic media. Stretching well beyond social media, this book documents disparate tendencies in the ways people learn and share information about health and science. By reviewing a wide array of existing research—ranging from a survey of New Orleans residents in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina to analysis of Twitter posts related to H1N1 to a physician-led communication campaign explaining the benefits of vaginal birth—Brian G. Southwell explains why some types of information are more likely to be shared than others and how some people never get exposed to seemingly widely available information. This book will appeal to social science students and citizens interested in the role of social networks in information diffusion and yet it also serves as a cautionary tale for communication practitioners and policymakers interested in leveraging social ties as an inexpensive method to spread information.
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50 Communication Strategies

For the study on married couples conflicts see: Schutz, A. (1999). ... See, for
example, P. Watzlawick, J. H. Beavin, & D. D. Jackson, Pragmatics of human
communication: A study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes (
New York, ...

Author: Joseph A. DeVito

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 1475956525

Category: Self-Help

Page: 246

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From advice (both giving and receiving it) to workplace communication, 50 Communication Strategies provides you with an arsenal of practical skills and tools for making your communication more successful in personal relationships, in work environments, and in the written wordboth face-to-face and online. Author Joseph A. DeVito presents a range of strategies that includes managing anger, becoming more assertive, thinking more critically, engaging in small talk, increasing your own attractiveness, detecting deceit, expressing politeness in conversation, and talking with the griefstricken. DeVito discusses simple principles to help you apply the fifty strategies more appropriately and effectively. Each chapter has a simple,straightforward structure and contains a communication goal, a brief explanation, bulleted strategies for achieving the goal, and a reminder to try this technique in your own communications. The ideas discussed in 50 Communication Strategies show you how to improve your skills and make your communication more effective, more persuasive, more powerful, and more memorable.
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Brand Revolution

Also called Palo Alto School or Invisible College, initially a group of researchers
working at the Mental Research ... Don D. Jackson, Pragmatics of Human
Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes,
WW ...

Author: M. Sicard

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137019493

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 171

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Brand Revolution offers a radical new approach to brand management. With big brand case studies including L'Oreal and Jaguar, the author draws on her extensive experience as a marketing consultant to put together this highly engaging and practical book for developing, improving and controlling the identity of your brand.
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Social Psychology in Transition

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1966, 4, 343–346. Watzlawick, P.,
Beavin, J. H., and Jackson, D. D. Pragmatics of human communication. A study of
interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: Norton, 1967.

Author: Lloyd Strickland

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781461587651

Category: Psychology

Page: 361

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Emergence of Individual Differences in Social Context ROBERT B. ZAJONC A priest who was a heavy smoker once asked his bishop if it was all right if he smoked while praying. Appalled, the bishop chastised the priest for the very thought of soiling the solemn moment of prayer with such a filthy habit. Some years passed and the bishop came again through our priest's parish. And our tormented priest asked again about his predicament. But he asked a somewhat different question: "Your excellency," he said, "is it all right to pray while smoking?" There was no hesitation in the bishop's answer. "Of course!" he said. "There is nothing in the world that should keep you from praying. You can always pray, my son. You should miss no opportunity to pray. Whenever you wish to pray, by all means pray!" The relationship between individual differences and social psychology is roughly the same as between smoking and praying. Many social psychologists, and especially experimental social psycholOgists, are openly disdainful of individ ual difference variables. They avoid them in their studies and refuse to incor porate them in theories. The reasons for their (and we really should say "my" because the author is no exception in this matter) attitude are not obvious.
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Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Technology

Pragmatics of human communication: A study of interactional patterns,
pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: W. W. Norton. Wenger, E. (1998).
Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and Identity. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University ...

Author: Kidd, Terry T.

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781599048666

Category: Computers

Page: 1110

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"This book provides information on different styles of instructional design methodologies, tips, and strategies on how to use technology to facilitate active learning and techniques to help faculty and researchers develop online instructional and teaching materials. It enables libraries to provide a foundational reference for researchers, educators, administrators, and others in the context of instructional systems and technology"--Provided by publisher.
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