1st Edition

Online Education Global Questions, Local Answers

342 Pages

by Routledge

264 Pages

by Routledge

264 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

In "Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers", 24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to developing high-quality online education programs. We describe these questions as "global" because they transcend the particular situations of individual institutions. They are questions that everyone involved in... Read more

Introduction

SECTION 1: HOW DO WE CREATE AND SUSTAIN ONLINE PROGRAMS AND COURSES?

CHAPTER 1
Applying Technical Communication Theory to the Design of Online Education Marjorie T. Davis

CHAPTER 2
Students in the Online Technical Communication Classroom Angela Eaton

CHAPTER 3
An Argument for Pedagogy-Driven Online Education Kelli Cargile Cook

CHAPTER 4
Strategic Planning for Online Education: Sustaining Students, Faculty, and Programs Carolyn Rude

SECTION 2: HOW DO WE CREATE INTERACTIVE, PEDAGOGICALLY SOUND ONLINE COURSES AND CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES?

CHAPTER 5
Changing Roles for Online Teachers of Technical Communication Nancy W. Coppola

CHAPTER 6
Teaching Well Online with Instructional and Procedural Scaffolding Helen M. Grady and Marjorie T. Davis

CHAPTER 7
Mind the Gap(s): Modeling Space in Online Education Locke Carter and Rebecca Rickly

CHAPTER 8
Enhancing Online Collaboration: Virtual Peer Review in the Writing Classroom Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

CHAPTER 9
Replicating and Extending Dialogic Aspects of the Graduate Seminar in Distance Education Susan Lang

CHAPTER 10
Paralogy and Online Pedagogy Mark Zachry

SECTION 3: HOW SHOULD WE MONITOR AND ASSESS THE QUALITY OF ONLINE COURSES AND PROGRAMS?

CHAPTER 11
Students' Technological Difficulties in Using Web-Based Learning Environments Philip Rubens and Sherry Southard

CHAPTER 12
Activity Theory and the Online Technical Communication Course: Assessing Quality in Undergraduate Online Instruction Kristin Walker

CHAPTER 13
An Assignment Too Far: Reflecting Critically on Internships in an Online Master's Program Keith Grant-Davie

CHAPTER 14
Online Course and Instructor Evaluations Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie

CHAPTER 15
Assessing Student Interaction in the Global Classroom Project: Visualizing Communication and Collaboration Patterns Using Online Transcripts Cassie Avery, Jason Civjan, and Aditya Johri

SECTION 4: HOW IS ONLINE EDUCATION CHALLENGING OUR ASSUMPTIONS?

CHAPTER 16
The Global Classroom Project: Troublemaking and Troubleshooting TyAnna Herrington and Yuri Tretyakov

CHAPTER 17
Knowledge Politics: Open Sourcing Education Brenton Faber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola

CHAPTER 18
Extreme Pedagogies: When Technical Communication Vaults Institutional Barriers Billie J. Wahlstrom and Linda S. Clemens

Contributors
Index