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Product Description: This book explores the particular challenges of teaching and learning science at a distance. It discusses the principles of instructional design, informed by studies of the ways in which conceptual and process-based skills are developed by science learners, and suggests how structural issues in the selection of course content may be addressed...read more

Product Description: Communicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professional world of science. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Communicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professional world of science. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Communication Science: Contexts and Channels is a collection of articles that addresses the communication between scientists and the public. The book is an ideal introduction for those studying science and communication courses.

Product Description: Developments in information technology are bringing about changes in science education. This Reader focuses on the theoretical and practical consideration of using information and communications technologies in teaching and learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Developments in information technology are bringing about changes in science education. This Reader focuses on the theoretical and practical consideration of using information and communications technologies in teaching and learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A survey of science learning provides information on such topics as the processes in which science is learned and the diversity in science learning.

Product Description: What is the impact of open access on science communication? How can scientists effectively engage and interact with the public? What role can science communication have when scientific controversies arise? Practising science communication in the information age is a collection of newly-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and practitioners of science communication...read more