Full Description
Online Education Policy and Practice examines the past, present, and future of networked learning environments and the changing role of faculty within them. As digital technologies in higher education increasingly enable blended classrooms, collaborative assignments, and wider student access, an understanding of the creation and ongoing developments of these platforms is needed more than ever. By investigating the history of online education, the rise and critique of MOOCs, the mainstreaming of social media, mobile devices, gaming in instruction, and more, this expansive book outlines a variety of potential scenarios likely to become realities in higher education over the next decade.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section I - The Higher Education Landscape
Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Ideology and Technology that Drives Higher Education Policy and Practice
Chapter 2 - American Higher Education at the Crossroads
Chapter 3 - Are the Faculty the University?
Chapter 4 - Higher Education, Digital Technology, and Instruction
Section II - Online Education
Chapter 5 - The First Wave: Beginnings (1993-1999)
Chapter 6 - The Second Wave: Blending into the Mainstream (Early 2000s)
Chapter 7 - The Third Wave: The MOOC Phenomenon (2008-2013)
Chapter 8 - The Fourth Wave: The Reconciliation of Blended and MOOC Technologies (2014-2020)
Chapter 9 - The Fifth Wave: Maturation (2021-2029)
Chapter 10 - 2030 and Beyond
Epilogue
About the Author
Index
