Best Practices for Administering Online Programs

Best Practices for Administering Online Programs is a practical volume for university teams seeking to manage effective online programs. Defining, designing, implementing, and updating online courses is a highly collaborative effort, particularly with limited resources and expanding student enrollment. This book unites the efforts of program directors, supervisors, department chairs, participating faculty, instructional designers, IT specialists, and support staff toward a common goal: affordable, accessible, and scalable online learning. Readers will find guidelines for fostering quality, faculty skills, academic integrity, learning objectives, course improvement, and more.

List of contents

1 - Getting started online; 2 - Faculty considerations for building an online program; 3 - Issues that online courses must address; 4 - Program definition and development; 5 - Program administration; 6 – Fundamentals of course design and development; 7 – Advanced course design; 8 - When a course is underway; 9 - Addressing unexpected developments; 10 - Administering course revisions

About the author

Daniel Hillman is Associate Director of Instructional Design in the Office of Distance Education at Metropolitan College of Boston University, USA.
Robert Schudy is Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Metropolitan College of Boston University, USA.
Anatoly Temkin is Chair of the Computer Science Department at Metropolitan College of Boston University, USA.

Summary

Best Practices for Administrating Online Programs is a practical volume for university teams seeking to manage effective online programs. Readers will find guidelines for fostering quality, faculty skills, academic integrity, learning objectives, course improvement, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Hillman, Daniel Schudy Hillman, Robert Schudy, Anatoly Temkin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780367349738
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34973-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, EDUCATION / Special Education / Learning Disabilities, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, Teaching of a specific subject, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher