Online Postgraduate Education - Re-Imagining Openness, Distance and Interaction

Providing a comprehensive examination of the nature of online higher education, this book proposes effective ways in which it can be conceptualised and designed to be more accessible and authentic for adult learners.

List of contents

1. Conceptual foundations

2. Historical Foundations and Conflicting Discourses

3. Creating Narratives of OPE.

4. Introducing twelve OPE students and their narratives
5. Lived interactions in OPE
6. From interaction to transaction in OPE
7. Transactional Distance in OPE
8. Re-conceptualising Openness, Distance, and Interaction

About the author

Katharine Stapleford is a Lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Leeds, UK.
Kyungmee Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Seoul National University, South Korea. Previously, she worked at the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK.

Summary

Providing a comprehensive examination of the nature of online higher education, this book proposes effective ways in which it can be conceptualised and designed to be more accessible and authentic for adult learners.

Product details

• Authors: Kyungmee Lee, Katharine Stapleford, Katharine Lee Stapleford
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9780367490249
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49024-9
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Home Schooling, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher