Online Education is a comprehensive exploration of blended and fully online teaching platforms, addressing history, theory, research, planning, and practice. As colleges, universities, and schools around the world adopt large-scale technologies and traditional class models shift into seamless, digitally interactive environments, critical insights are needed into the implications for administration and pedagogy. Written by a major contributor to the field, this book contextualizes online education in the past and present before analyzing its fundamental changes to instruction, program integration, social interaction, content construction, networked media, policy, and more. A provocative concluding chapter speculates on the future of education as the sector becomes increasingly dependent on learning technologies.
Author(s): Anthony G. Picciano
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: xvi; 193
City: New York
Tags: Web-based instruction; Distance education--Effect of technological innovations on; Technology in Education; Education Policy; Higher Education; Open & Distance Education and eLearning; Theory of Education; Curriculum Studies; Education; Education Policy & Politics
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Boxes
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Foundations, Planning, and Pedagogy
SECTION I Foundations
2 The History and Evolution of Online Education
3 Theoretical Frameworks for Online Education: Seeking an Integrated Model
4 Research on Online Education
SECTION II Planning and Pedagogy
5 Planning for Online Education: A Systems Model
6 Designing Instruction for Online Environments
7 Academic, Administrative, and Student Support Structures
8 Navigating the Current Landscape—Blending It All Together!
9 The 2020s, 2030s, and Beyond!
Appendix A Case Studies in Online Education
Appendix B Evaluation Criteria for the Administration of Online Education Programs
Appendix C Evaluation Criteria for Blended Learning Programs
Appendix D Evaluation Criteria for Quality Course Teaching and Instructional Practice
Appendix E General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Overview
Index
