Online Education New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 150

by Garza Mitchell, Regina L.

• ISBN13: 9780470889695
• ISBN10: 0470889691
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-21
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This volume highlights existing issues in online courses and programs and provides strategies for addressing them as the demand for online education continues to grow. Organizational changes caused by greater reliance on technology for teaching and learning are still not fully understood, and many colleges continue to react to change rather than positioning themselves to take advantage of it. As a challenge to that, contributors to this volume use personal narratives and research to discuss how online education continues to lead to organizational, professional, and personal change.Community colleges are at the forefront of the tremendous growth in online programs. Two-year colleges now serve more than half of all online students, and they are poised for continued growth as more adults seek education and retraining. Despite the acceptance, and even expectation, of online services and programs in education, colleges must address existing issues before expanding these. This volume is an indispensable resource in that process.This is the 150th volume of the Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report series New Directions for Community Colleges. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

Table of Contents

Editor's Notes	p. 1
Online Education in Community Colleges	p. 7
Planning for Online Courses at Rural Community Colleges	p. 17
Administrative Challenges and Rewards of Online Learning in a Rural Community College: Reflections of a Distance Education Administrator	p. 27
The Trials and Accomplishments of an Online Adjunct Faculty Member	p. 37
Essential Tasks and Skills for Online Community College Faculty	p. 43
Web 2.0 and Emerging Technologies in Online Learning	p. 57
Potential of Social Networking Sites for Distance Education Student Engagement	p. 67
Online Student Services at the Community College	p. 79
Approaching Common Ground: Defining Quality in Online Education	p. 89
Teaching the World to Sing: Planning for the Future of Online Learning	p. 95
Index	p. 103
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