Full Description
Online learning has been one of the fastest growing areas of educational technology over the past few decades. With a rise of new online colleges and universities due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, as well as the adoption of online learning in traditional institutions, the adoption rate of online learning has moved from an optional service to a mandatory one, requiring higher educational institutions to completely rethink the nature of teaching and learning and how it can be provisioned to meet the needs of students, institutions, and society. This volume considers the technology implementation, faculty training and professional development, and adjustments of university and departmental budgeting required to meet this seismic and momentous challenge.
Focusing on effective practices in online teaching, this volume of Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning begins with discussing the use of videos in online teaching and then pivots to consider methods for supporting and managing faculty who teach online. From there, authors focus in on different aspects of the online learning experience including lurking, student engagement, cultural implications for online instruction. Understanding that the greatest challenge for higher education institutions has been not so much how to implement online teaching and learning, but how to do it effectively, the collection closes with an analysis of online course syllabi and effective methods for facilitating tutoring online.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction; Patrick Blessinger and Jaimie Hoffman
Chapter 2. Supporting Online Learners in Psychology: An Analysis of the Use of Videos in an Undergraduate Statistics Course; Janie Busby Grant and Karin Oerlemans
Chapter 3. Activating Communities of Learning Among Online Energy and Environmental Science Graduate Students with Vlogging and Scholar-Practitioner Interviews; Jennifer da Rosa
Chapter 4. Best Practices in Online Faculty Management: Strategies and Case Studies; Michelle Dennis and Sarah Fornero
Chapter 5. Student and Facilitator Experiences of Team Learning in Online Environments: Synergies, Divergences and Implications for Practice; Cassie Hague and Lucilla Crosta
Chapter 6. Three Lenses on Lurking: Making Sense of Digital Silence; Caroline Kuhn H., Leo Havemann, Suzan Koseoglu, and Aras Bozkurt
Chapter 7. Retrieval Practice and Online Learning; April Millet, Nate Turcotte, and Shulong Yan
Chapter 8. Reflecting on the theory of transactional distance in addressing barriers to student-engagement in Open Distance Learning; Ramashego Shila Shorty Mphahlele and Matlala Violet Makokotlela
Chapter 9. Analyses of Online Course Syllabi for Planned Interactions and Learner Support; Sandra A. Rogers and Gurupreet K. Khalsa
Chapter 10. Perspectives on Effective E-tutoring that Motivates and Enhances Students' Learning through Learner Management Systems and Social Media; Gloria Sauti
