Online education : global questions, local answers / edited by Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cargile Cook, Kelli, 1959-

Grant-Davie, Keith, 1957-

Series:

Baywood's technical communications series (Unnumbered)

Baywood's technical communications series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Computer-assisted instruction.

Education, Higher.

Distance education--Computer-assisted instruction.

Distance education.

Internet in higher education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In "Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers", 24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to developing high-quality online education programs. We describe these questions as "global" because they transcend the particular situations of individual institutions. They are questions that everyone involved in online education needs to address: What are the issues to consider when first developing and then sustaining an online education program? How do we create interactive, pedagogically sound online courses and classroom communities? How should we monitor and assess the quality of online courses and programs? And how should recent developments and innovations in online education cause us to reexamine our roles and responsibilities as educators in technical communication?While these global questions affect all of us in one way or another, they demand different local answers, such as those presented by the contributors to this text. Readers will need to consider which of these local answers might apply to their own situations and how these answers might need to be adapted to reflect the particular needs of their own institutions.

Contents:

section 1. How do we create and sustain online programs and courses?

section 2. How do we create interactive, pedagogically sound online courses and classroom communities?

section 3. How should we monitor and assess the quality of online courses and programs?

section 4. How is online education challenging our assumptions?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-22397-X

0-89503-440-9

9781315223971

OCLC:

649860914