Full Description
This book is the first comprehensive and integrated guide to online education. It systematically presents all aspects of the emerging "big picture" of online education, providing a broad range of information and insights from online experts, learners, teachers, developers and researchers.
The book introduces readers to online education and reveals its potential for bringing about a paradigm shift in education. It describes avenues for increasing the value of the online education medium and examines techniques for improving the online student experience. It also offers a wealth of real-world examples and experiences and shares recommendations on how to improve them, provided by students, teachers, developers, and researchers.
Accordingly, the book equips readers - including online learners, teachers, researchers, developers, and administrators - to optimally participate in and contribute to current and future online education advances.
Contents
Preface - Opportunities and challenges for a brave new education world.- Part I: Innovations and advances in online education.- Online education by design: Using evidence and course analytics to achieve best online teaching and learning practice.- Am I just another Number? Using online education innovations to Personalise and improve the student experience in online learning.- Enhancing the online student experience through creating learning communities - The benefits of chatbots in higher education.- Enhancing the online education experience using virtual reality.- Learning design meets service design for innovation in online learning at scale.- An online education toolbox.- Developing and maintaining active learning resources for online learning and teaching.- From virtual to reality: A practical guide to creating educational virtual reality content.- An online research portal - An integrated and transferable fully online research system.- Part II: Student-centred online education.- Back to the education future - Evidence-based student-centred approaches to online curriculum design and delivery.- "Same Same or Different?" predictors of student success in online courses.- Transcending "Distance" in distance education.- eRage - Recognising and optimally responding to a growing educational challenge.- The authentic online teacher - Practical insights from Rogers' Person-centred approach.- Accessibility and inclusivity in online teaching.- Creatively flexible, technology fluent - Developing an optimal online.- Ready or not, here I come - Preparing online students for the real working world.
