The online learning environment is much different from traditional classrooms and face-to-face training environments. The Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training provides academic educators, corporate trainers, and administrators working in distance learning (or considering the move to online or distance learning) a solid understanding and foundation in the needs and demands of virtual classrooms.
The Handbook is divided into two parts. Part I provides an overview and includes discussion of the unique structural aspects of the electronic learning environment, pedagogical issues, curriculum design, psychological and group dynamics, and ethical issues. Part II examines practical issues associated with implementing courses online, both in the traditional university setting and in professional/corporate training environments.
The 20 articles included in the Handbook, by educational experts, are supported with case studies that provide real application examples to the theory and concepts presented.
Just a few of the topics covered include:
- The Coming of Age of Adult Online Education
- Critcial Dialog Online
- What Faculty and Students Need to be Successful Online
- Strategies of Effective Online Administration
- Harnessing the Power and Complexity in an Online Learning Environment
- Real World Learning in the Virtual Classroom
...and much more.
The Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training is required reading if you hope to understand the online learning environment.
About the Editors
Judith Schoenholtz-Read, Ed.D., is a member of the Psychology Program at The Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California. In 1999, she coauthored "Group Supervision Meets Technology: A Model for Computer Mediated Group Training at a Distance" (with Dean Janoff) for the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. She is a fellow in the Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association and is Secretary of Division 49 (Group Psychology and Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association. Her research interests include feminist theory and practice, group psychotherapy, non-verbal methods of psychotherapy, psychotherapy integration, and narrative research methods.
Kjell Erik Rudestam, Ph.D., is an Associate Dean at The Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California. He was previously Professor of Psychology at York University, Toronto. He received his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Oregon. He is author of Methods of Self-Change, Experiential Groups in Theory and Practice, Treating the Multi-Problem Family (with Mark Frankel), and Your Statistical Consultant and Surviving Your Dissertation, Second Edition (both with Rae Newton), as well as numerous articles in professional journals. His research interests are suicide, psychotherapy, and family and organizational systems. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology (Clinical).
Book Stats
Title: Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training
Editors: Judith Schoenholtz-Read, Ed.D. and Kjell Erik Rudestam, Ph.D., editors
Publisher: Sage Publications
Publication Date: 2002
Page Count: 459
ISBN: 978-0761924036
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