An introduction to distance education : understanding teaching and learning in a new era / edited by Martha Cleveland-Innes and D. Randy Garrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cleveland-Innes, Martha, 1956- editor.

Garrison, D. R. (D. Randy), 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distance education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

An Introduction to Distance Education is a comprehensive look at the field of distance education, outlining current theories, practices, and goals that are essential to effective design, delivery, and navigation. As an alternative pedagogical approach, distance education is posited to meet the evolving demands for access, affordability, and quality in higher education. This fully revised and updated second edition reviews the history of distance education while addressing its current influence on the education sector. Utilizing a student-guided approach, chapters offer pedagogical features to engage and support the teaching and learning process, including: questions for reflection, review, and discussion: students can use these questions as triggers for further thoughts related to the topic. Instructors can use these questions for classroom and online discussion key quotations: strategically placed throughout the text, these points act as a springboard for further reflection and classroom discussion concept definitions: central concepts discussed in the text are defined for students at the end of each chapter. Driven by seminal contributors who are researching and shaping our understanding and practice of distance education today, An Introduction to Distance Education offers a solid foundation from which to explore and develop new approaches to designing and implementing online courses.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Foreword

Part I An Evolving Distance Education

Chapter 1 Teaching and Learning in Distance Education: Continue a New Era

Introduction

Review of the book

Conclusion

Note

References

Chapter 2 From Independence to Collaboration: A Personal Retrospective on Distance Education

Independent study

Collaboration at a distance

Thinking collaboratively

Community of Inquiry

Questions for reflection

Significant contributor

Chapter 3 Formal and Informal Paths of Lifelong Learning: Hybrid Distance Educational Settings for the Digital Era

The roots of lifelong learning

Lifelong learning as paths in private and public spheres

The changing mandate of higher education

The Emergence of the Hybrid and Networked University

Dissolving the dichotomy of formal and informal learning

The digital blurring of the formal and informal paths of lifelong learning

Lifelong learning as paths in hybrid and networked educational settings

Terms and definitions

Chapter 4 Failures of Open and Distance Education's Successes

The disappointment of success

How Did we Get Here?

Economic Links to Higher Education…

Alas, a Casualty of its Own Success…

The financial failure of distance education's successes: Where are we now?

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Part II Distance Education in the Post-industrial Context

Chapter 5 Teaching and Learning in Post-Industrial Distance Education

Pedagogical affordance and emergent digital technologies

Access to Information

Multimedia Integration.

Social Media

Learning Analytics

Constructivism and online learning

Learner-centered Learning Environments

Knowledge-centered Learning Environments

Assessment-centered Learning Environments

Community-centered Learning Environments

Serendipity: an Aside and Transition

Community of Inquiry framework

Social Presence

Teaching Presence

Cognitive Presence

Final thoughts

Chapter 6 Into the Breach: The Emerging Landscape in Online Learning

What is AI?

Tier 1: AI

Tier 2: Machine Learning

Tier 3: Deep Learning

Beginning the Student Journey with Help from AI

Retention

Career planning

Tracking performance and credentials

Open Education Resources

Convergence

Chapter 7 Blended Learning Revisited

Students' perspectives

Faculty perspectives

Administrators and institutional perspectives

Blended learning through the lens of the Community of Inquiry framework

Future research agenda

Chapter 8 Repositioning and Re-purposing Distance Education for the Future

Technology

Students

Educational institutions

Future issues

Disruptive Technology

Techno-capitalism

Hyper-reality

Teleconferencing

Televideoconferencing

Nanotechnology

m-learning

Digital Natives

Corporate Classroom

Screenagers

Part III Leading the Change

Chapter 9 Leadership in a New Era of Higher Distance Education

A situation assessment

Economic Issues

Changing Demographics.

Globalization and Intercultural Relations

Emerging Technologies

There is Huge Growth in Internet Use

Technological Fluency is a Graduation Requirement

Teaching and Learning

Information, and Knowledge, is Growing Exponentially

Instruction Must Become More Learner-centered and Self-directed

The Role of Faculty as Teacher and Student as Learner Must Change

Changing Faculty Roles Increases the Need for Faculty Development and Support

Leadership in context

Change and Innovation

Collaborative Partnerships

Leadership in Networked Environments

Strategic planning

Culture:

Faculty development:

Chapter 10 From Distance Education to Blended Learning: Leading Pedagogical Change

Defining blended learning

Situating blended learning

Developing higher education leadership

New leadership for blended learning

Questions for review

Part IV Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 11 Teaching, Learning, and Beyond

Themes

Post-industrial distance education

Distance education theory

Author Biographies

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-16689-5

1-351-68135-4

9781315166896

OCLC:

1153337679