Evidence-Based Blended and Online Learning gives lecturers tailor-made pedagogical suggestions for designing modern higher Education. Course design tasks are re-described, using features from ...technical design, problem solving, and design thinking, where creative design has a unique and essential role.
This book details online academic collaborations between universities in Europe, the USA and Palestine. The chapters recount the challenges and successes of online collaborations which promote ...academic connections and conversations with the Gaza Strip, despite a continuing blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007, and forge relationships between individuals, institutions and cultures. The chapters examine, from different perspectives, what happens when languages and the internet facilitate encounters, and the fundamental importance this has as a form of defiance and of resistance to the physical confinement experienced by Palestinian academics, students and the general population of Gaza. They highlight the limitations of multilingual and intercultural encounters when they are deprived of the sensory proximity of face-to-face situations and what is lost in the translation of languages, practices and experiences from the 'real' to the 'virtual' world.
Research shows that online education, when designed and facilitated well, is as effective as traditional campus-based instruction. Despite the evidence, many faculty perceive online education as ...inferior to traditional instruction-and are often quite vocal in their skepticism. Simultaneously, however, more and more students are seeking online courses and degree programs.Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator is an invitation for the rising tide of online educators who are relatively new to teaching online, and also for those more experienced instructors who are increasingly frustrated by the dominant bias against online education.Readers will find:o An approach that empowers online educators to thrive professionally using a set of specific agentic behaviorso Strategies for approaching conversations about online learning in new ways that inform the skeptics and criticso Strategies that celebrate the additional skills and proficiencies developed by successful online educatorso Guidance for educators who want to feel natural and fluent in the online learning environmento Guidance for enhancing the user-centered nature of online spaces to create student-centered learning environmentso Encouragement for online educators to pursue leadership opportunitiesThe internet is changing how people communicate and learn. Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator offers guidance, inspiration and strategies required to adapt and lead higher education through this change. This book is for higher education instructors who are seeking community, a sense of belonging, and the professional respect they deserve. Thriving is not a reaction to our environment, but rather a state of being we can create intentionally for ourselves.The time has come to change the conversation about online education. Add your voice - join the community and #ThriveOnline.
Effective online teaching is a well-documented topic, however, this book is different because it specifically addresses the effective and affective pedagogy and learning. It provides methods for ...building a strong and meaningful online environment that builds community, relationships, and establishes the social presence of each individual learner. This book provides a different perspective as it is written by experienced faculty members in higher education, all of whom have been teaching online for a decade or more. It also addresses the how and why establishing social presence as a necessity for effective online learning.This book addresses the "Why?" in the need for understanding contemporary approaches for exemplar online teaching with the establishment of social presence. With an increase in online learning, there is a shift in how current teaching practices are impacted and what is important to student learning in this change. This book describes the importance of strong andragogical practices in online teaching: rigor, teacher and learner mindset, and the importance of constructing social presence.
The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be ...mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, given the fundamental importance of the radical change taking place, it seems that the most appropriate name, reflecting the essence of the emerging new formation, is "digital university." This is because of the importance of digital transformation, which has been developing for several decades, bringing deep and multidirectional changes in the areas of technology, economy, society, and culture. It is a disruptive civilizational transition and, although stretched over many decades, it is revolutionary in nature, significantly changing our lives in the Anthropocene.The book has three cognitive and pragmatic objectives: to provide a new perspective on the changing academic organization and management; to reflect on higher education management concepts and methods; and to present an overview of university management, governance, and leadership, useful from the perspective of academic managers, and other stakeholders.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Published in Association with eLearning has entered the mainstream of higher education as an agent of strategic change. This transformation requires eLearning leaders to develop the skills to ...innovate successfully at a time of heightened competition and rapid technological change. In this environment eLearning leaders must act within their institutions as much more than technology managers and assume the prime role of helping their institutions understand the opportunities that eLearning presents for faculty, for students, and for client organizations in the community. They need to prepare to participate in policy development around these opportunities. They must understand the multiple dimensions of practice in the field-operations, administration, and working within the complex culture of a higher education institution-while also functioning as scholars of the field who can bring the best ideas from other institutions to help shape policy around eLearning.The second edition builds on the success of the first edition and presents both the collective expertise of veterans who have pioneered the field for 20 years, and of a rising generation of eLearning leaders that are transforming online programs at their own institutions, to address these challenges.This edition has been updated and expanded to reflect the increasing complexity of the field with seven new chapters and the revision of eight chapters that appeared in the first edition. New and updated topics include:
The evolving role of the chief online learning officer
Issues of diversity as more women and minorities enter leadership roles in the field
The increasing role of learning analytics and data-based decisions
The potential tensions involved in cohort-based versus individualized instruction
The increasing need for faculty professional development
The affordances of cloud computing, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and mobile learning to the field
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Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; Part 1. Costs and Productivity in Higher Education; Cost Trends, the "Cost Disease," and ...Productivity in Higher Education; Factors Other Than the Cost Disease Pushing Up Educational Costs; Affordability; Is There a Serious Problem-Even a Crisis?; Notes; Part 2. Prospects for an Online Fix; Background; The Lack of Hard Evidence; The Need for Customizable, Sustainable Platforms (or Tool Kits); The Need for New Mindsets-and Fresh Thinking about Decision-Making; What Must We Retain? Inhalt: Appendix: The Online Learning LandscapeNotes; Discussion by Howard Gardner; Discussion by John Hennessy; William G. Bowen's Responses to Discussion Session Comments; Discussion by Andrew Delbanco; Discussion by Daphne Koller; William G. Bowen's Responses to Discussion Session Comments; INDEX.
The rising cost of tuition, increasing competition, and mounting student loan debt has caused educational leaders to rethink degree programs and resources for learners. As such, open educational ...resources, prior learning assessment, open degree plans, and competency-based learning have gained popularity in the field of higher education. "Enhancing Education Through Open Degree Programs and Prior Learning Assessment" is a critical scholarly resource that examines teaching and learning materials that learners may freely use and reuse without charge. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as open educational resources, prior learning assessment, and competency-based learning, this book is geared towards educators, professionals, school administrators, researchers, academicians, librarians, and students seeking current research on equity and access to higher education for all learners across the globe. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Open Educational Resources and Prior Learning Assessment: Online Educational Programs (Peter McCarthy, Karleah Harris, and Alec Sithole); (2) Weaving Innovative Threads Together: A New Fabric for Higher Education (Judee Richardson); (3) Bridging the Pathway From the Masters to a Doctoral Program in Higher Education Through Portfolio Learning Assessment (Mette L. Baran and Janice E. Jones); (4) How Prior Learning Assessment Fits Into Today's Education Landscape (Susan Huggins); (5) Competency-Based Learning for Organizational Managers (Donta S. Harper); (6) New Degrees of Opportunity at OC@KU: Addressing the Needs of Today's Learners With Affordable, Flexible, Competency-Based Educational Options (Elizabeth Daniels, Kerrie Houchens, Don Whipple, and Carolyn N. Stevenson); (7) Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit (Rose Baker, David L. Passmore, and Brian Martin Mulligan); (8) Open by Degrees: A Case of Flexibility or Personalization? (Helen Cooke, Andy Lane, and Peter Taylor); (9) Open Educational Resource: How to Teach Online -- An Open Online Course That Prepares Instructors to Teach Online (Shelley Stewart); (10) Open Educational Resources for Higher Education: A Boon or a Threat? (Jessie Choi); (11) Designing Interaction in Online Courses (Kecia Ray, Susan E. Metros, and Allison Powell); (12) Fostering Effective Learning Community in the Online Classroom (Mary I. Dereshiwsky); (13) A Viking in Education: A Warrior in the Classroom (Carol A. Locker); (14) Utilizing Question and Answer Discussion Forums to Enhance Learning in University Health Courses: Q&A Online Discussion Forums for Efficient E-Learning (Niyi Awofeso); and (15) Resilience and Its Importance to Online Students (Mary I. Dereshiwsky). A section about the contributors and an index are included.
This book doesn't have a recipe for cooking up the next viral video, it offers lots of ways to stay true to individual and organizational values while engaging online.
