ABSTRACT
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 online education needs to address: What are the issues to consider when first developing and then sustaining an online education program? How do we create interactive, pedagogically sound online courses and classroom communities? How should we monitor and assess the quality of online courses and programs? And how should recent developments and innovations in online education cause us to reexamine our roles and responsibilities as educators in technical communication?While these global questions affect all of us in one way or another, they demand different local answers, such as those presented by the contributors to this text. Readers will need to consider which of these local answers might apply to their own situations and how these answers might need to be adapted to reflect the particular needs of their own institutions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section 1|73 pages
How Do We Create and Sustain Online Programs and Courses?
chapter Chapter 4|19 pages
Strategic Planning for Online Education: Sustaining Students, Faculty, and Programs
section Section 2|104 pages
How Do We Create Interactive, Pedagogically Sound Online Courses and Classroom Communities?
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Enhancing Online Collaboration: Virtual Peer Review in the Writing Classroom*
chapter Chapter 9|19 pages
Replicating and Extending Dialogic Aspects of the Graduate Seminar in Distance Education
section Section 3|74 pages
How Should We Monitor and Assess the Quality of Online Courses and Programs?
chapter Chapter 11|13 pages
Students’ Technological Difficulties in Using Web-Based Learning Environments
chapter Chapter 13|9 pages
An Assignment Too Far: Reflecting Critically on Internships in an Online Master’s Program
section Section 4|54 pages
How is Online Education Challenging Our Assumptions?