Issues in Web-Based Pedagogy A Critical Primer

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• Education » Higher Education
• Communications » Telecommunications
• Education » Curriculum & Instruction
• Education » Education (General)

Reviews:

• Issues in Web-Based Pedagogy offers a much-needed and very useful collection of critical essays on a rapidly developing area of pedagogy....A number of the essays offer very helpful historical backgrounds that help orient readers not already familiar with the role web pedagogy and distance learning in general play in American education....The articles address key issues such as technology integration, the large up-front demands of time and resources of web-based teaching, how to encourage active learning, teaching effective research skills, building online learning communities, and facilitating productive online discussion....A particular strength of the collection is the extensive and varied treatment of the vast poltical implications of web-based pedagogy for education. College and university teachers, administrators, and support staff who wish better to understand the quiet revolution that is transforming American higher education would we well-served by reading articles such....
  —Communication Research Trends 2003
• [T]he collective expertise of the authors makes this compilation a helpful starting point for faculty who are relatively new to teaching online, graduate students, and web-based instruction decision-makers. It is not a book just for other web-converts. For educators interested in the Web for teaching and learning purposes, this book is a good place to initiate professional reading.
  —Education, Communication & Information 2001

• Endorsement From William H. Dutton
  Professor of Communication
  University of Southern California
  Author of Society on the Line: This book presents pioneering approaches to online education by some of its early practitioner-scholars....It should be must reading for those of us who wish to learn from the early experience of our colleagues.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Philosophical and Theoretical Considerations
• Expectations Exploded by R. Stanton Hales
• Using the Internet for Teaching and Research: A Political Evaluation by Michael Margolis
• The Web, the Millennium, and the Digital Evolution of Distance Education by David C. Leonard
• Critical Reflections: Political Philosophy and Web Technology by John Steel
• Communication Technologies in an Educational Environment: Lessons from a Historical Perspective by Patrick B. O'Sullivan
• When and Where Appropriate: Lessons from "Foreign" Contexts for the Pedagogical Use of Web-Based Technologies in the United States by Julian Kilker
• From Rhetoric to Technology: A Transformation from Citizens into Consumers by Laura Blasi and Walter Heinecke
• Is There a Professor in This Class? by David C. Paris
• Where Is Every-body? by Paulette Robinson
• Transforming Professionals via the Web: Promoting Social Justice in Web-Based Ethics Education for Counselors by Marvin J. McDonald
• The Roles and Interrelationships of Presence, Reflection, and Self-Directed Learning in Effective World Wide Web-Based Pedagogy by Sherry Wulff, Joan Hanor, and Robert J. Bulik
• Using the Web to Create Student-Centered Curriculum by Bijan B. Gillani
• The Scholarship of Web-Based Teaching by Martha Daugherty, Autumn Grubb, Jude Hirsch, and Lee Gillis
• Empirical and Practical Considerations
• Creating an Environment for Successful Technology Integration by Kay S. Dennis
• The `Time' Factor in On-line Teaching: Implications for Faculty and Their Universities by Claudine Schweber
• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Teaching and Technology by Alec M. Testa
• Copyright and Web-Based Education: What All Faculty Should Know by David Throne
• Using the Web in Live Lectures: Examples and Issues by Graeme Lang
• Untangling the Web: Developing Web-Enhanced Instruction for Political Science by Donald L. Goff
• The Promise--and Potential Pitfalls--of Cyberlearning by Peter Navarro
• Preparing Higher Education Learners for Success on the Web by May Lowry, Christine Thornam, and Cason White
• A Hierarchy of Access Issues Affecting On-line Participation by Community College Students by Allan Craig Lauzon, Tricia Bertram Gallant, and Susan Rimkus
• On-line Is on Target for Motivated Learners by Michael S. Ameigh
• Teaching Research Skills Using the Internet by Mark Gellis
• Tearing Down Barriers and Building Communities: Pedagogical Strategies for the Web-Based Environment by Autumn Grubb and Margaret Hines
• Facilitating On-line Discussion in an Asynchronous Format by Tisha Bender
• Web-Based Instruction and People with Disabilities by Sheryl Burgstahler
• Index