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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. 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
