Full Description
The higher education sector is being disrupted through the effect that technological innovations have on the educational market. As digital and mobile technologies are developing further, higher education institutions must embrace these developments to meet the needs of their learners and to not become irrelevant. In higher education, disruptive effects are mainly visible on a program/product level, with an increasing number of programs including some element of online education.
Disruptive effects also become evident on a pedagogical level, where student engagement, collaboration and social learning, gamification and serious games, competency-based learning, teacher training, and overcoming geosocial divides are high on the agenda. This book considers the effect of online elements and their design on university business models and internationalization, course design, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the scalability of online programs. It also explores how higher education institutions across the globe respond and react to the challenges and opportunities evolving in online education.
Contents
Introduction. The Disruptive Power of Online Education: Challenges,
Opportunities, Responses; Andreas Altmann, Bernd Ebersberger, Claudia Mössenlechner and Desiree WieserPart I -
Online Programs and Program Design
Chapter 1. Scaling Online Learning: The Case
for a Program Level Approach; Regina Obexer
Chapter 2. Logic
Leads LEARNing: MOOCs in the Middle East; Yusuf Sidani
Chapter 3, The Power
of Technology in Customized Executive Education; Lynette Ryals, Ruth Bender and Toby Thompson
Chapter 4. Internationalization
of Online Learning: A Double Degree Model; Charles Krusekopf
Part II - Changing
Classroom Dynamics in the Digital Teaching Space
Chapter 5. Engagement in Online Learning:
It's not all About Faculty!; Kathy Bishop, Catherine Etmanski and M. Beth Page
Chapter 6. Social Collaborative Learning
Environments: A Means to Reconceptualize Leadership Education for tomorrow's
Leaders and Universities?; Anja P. Schmitz and Jan Foelsing
Chapter 7. Online, not Distance Education:
The Merits of Collaborative Learning in Online Education; Desiree Wieser and Jürgen-Matthias Seeler
Chapter 8. Disrupting Higher Education in
Alaska: Introducing the Native Teacher Certification Pathway Program; Paul
Berg, Kathryn Cruz, Tom Duening and Susan Schoenberg
Chapter 9. Academic Rigor and Video
Technology in Online Learning and Teaching: A Case Study on Digital
Storytelling in Masters-Level Assignment; Eva Malisius
Chapter 10. Game-Based Learning as Education
Method in the Digital Age; Ronald Deckert, Felix Heymann and Maren Metz
