Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda offersa systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas ofpriority in online distance education research. In each chapter, aninternational expert or team of experts provides an overview of onetimely issue in online distance education, summarizing major researchon the topic, discussing theoretical insights that guide the research,posing questions and directions for future research, and discussing theimplications for distance education practice as a whole. Intended as aprimary reference and guide for distance educators, researchers, andpolicymakers, Online Distance Education addresses aspects ofdistance education practice that have often been marginalized,including issues of cost and economics, concerns surrounding socialjustice, cultural bias, the need for faculty professional development,and the management and growth of learner communities. At once soundlyempirical and thoughtfully reflective, yet also forward-looking andopen to new approaches to online and distance teaching, this text is asolid resource for researchers in a rapidly expanding discipline.
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Offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research.
Foreword - Otto Peters Introduction Research Areas in Online Distance Education / OlafZawacki-Richter and Terry Anderson   part I       Macro-levelResearch: Distance Education Systems and Theories Internationalization and Concepts of Social Justice: What Is to BeDone? / Alan Tait and Jennifer O'Rourke Globalization, Culture, and Online Distance Learning / CharlotteN. Gunawardena Distance Education Systems and Institutions in the Online Era: AnIdentity Crisis / Sarah Guri-Rosenblit Online Distance Education Models and Research Implications /Terry D. Evans and Margaret Haughey Methods of Study in Distance Education: A Critical Review ofSelected Recent Literature / Farhad Saba   part II      Meso-level research:Management, Organization, and Technology Organization and Management of Online and Distance Learning /Ross Paul The Costs and Economics of Online Distance Education / GrevilleRumble The Use of Technology in Distance Education / GráinneConole Innovation and Change: Changing How we Change / JonDron Professional Development and Faculty Support / MargaretHicks Learner Support in Online Distance Education: Essential and Evolving/ Jane E. Brindley Quality Assurance in Online Distance Education / ColinLatchem   part III     Micro-level Research:Learning and Teaching in Distance Education Major Movements in Instructional Design / Katy Campbell andRichard. A. Schwier Interaction and Communication in Online Learning Communities:Towardan Engaged and Flexible Future / Dianne Conrad Quantitative Analysis of Interaction Patterns in Online DistanceEducation / Allan Jeong From the Back Door into the Mainstream: The Characteristics ofLifelong Learners / Joachim Stöter, Mark Bullen, OlafZawacki-Richter, and Christine von Prümmer Student Dropout: The Elephant in the Room / Alan Woodley andOrmond Simpson   Conclusion Towards a Research Agenda / Terry Anderson and OlafZawacki-Richter
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In the past, most laymen, practitioners, and even experts in the field described distance education very simply as a form of learning in which physical proximity is replaced by distance and oral dialogue by mediated communication. This simplistic understanding still lingers in many people's minds. This volume demonstrates instead that online distance education is a comprehensive, many-sided process and a multifunctional system.
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In the past, most laymen, practitioners, and even experts in the field described distance education very simply as a form of learning in which physical proximity is replaced by distance and oral dialogue by mediated communication. This simplistic understanding still lingers in many people's minds. This volume demonstrates instead that online distance education is a comprehensive, many-sided process and a multifunctional system. -- Otto Peters, FernUniversitat in Hagen
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781927356623
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
AU Press
Vekt
820 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Om bidragsyterne

Olaf Zawacki-Richter is professor of educationaltechnology at the University of Oldenburg, and also teaches in theonline Masters of Distance Education and E-Learning program offeredjointly by the University of Oldenburg and the University of Maryland,University College.

Terry Anderson is professor and researcher in theTechnology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Centre at Athabasca University.His research interests focus on interaction and social media ineducational contexts. He is the editor of The Theory and Practice ofOnline Learning, 2nd ed., winner of the 2009 Charles E. WedemeyerAward.