Bøger af Melissa Layne

Why has the study of effective standards for online education grown steadily, beyond the usual confines of departments and colleges of education, in contrast to the level of interest in the higher education classroom? The process for online and blended course creation and improvement at the postsecondary level has engaged individuals and institutions in ways seldom experienced in face-to-face education. This work increasingly involves teams of individuals who need to share and collaborate in order to succeed. And the successful course, or even the well designed learning object, is itself an artifact that begs to be shared, analyzed and improved. This sharing begins locally, but spreads quickly to become regional, national, and even international. The collaborations that result from this phenomenon and the courses that are thereby strengthened, term by term, hold promise for the continual improvement of online education, year-by-year and version-by-version. This volume of Internet Learning is predicated upon work by individuals from the Quality Matters(TM) Program-an internationally recognized leader in quality assurance for online education, and by individuals who have conducted research studies based upon the Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric and course review process. It captures a small, but significant, sample of the kind of detailed analysis of online education toward which engagement with QM typically leads. Studies such as these are essential toward advancing quality in online teaching and learning, and will undoubtedly impact classroom-based education as well.

Melissa Layne, Ed.D., is the Director of Research Methodology and Editor-in-Chief for Internet Learning at American Public University System. Layne earned her doctoral degree in reading (digital literacies) from Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas and also holds a master's in curriculum and instruction from University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Layne's research agenda includes topics on student retention, adaptive and personalized learning, multi-user virtual environments, self-paced instructional design and implementation, text analytics, informal learning, and quality assurance in online learning at the institutional, program and course levels. Her research has been recognized by several distance learning organizations including the National University Technology Network (NUTN), and the Distance Learning Administration (DLA) organization. Layne also serves on the advisory council for the New Media Consortium, which is responsible for the annual issue of The Horizon Report. Her work has been covered in peer reviewed journal publications, book chapters, presentations and invited keynotes.

Internet Learning Journal (ILJ) is a bi-annual, open access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic publication sponsored by The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and American Public University System (APUS). Our title shows our focus and our ambition. Our multiple delivery platforms represent collective vision and models present day innovation. Our subject matter is the revolution that online learning has brought to the academy. Since the University of Bologna was founded in 1088, instruction was done face-to-face with the technologies of speaking and writing. The digital revolution has now offered an alternative to teaching, learning and scholarship. For the first time, we can look at classroom data, patterns of interaction and patterns of learning fixed in data points. The digital revolution threatens to change how students learn, teachers teach, education institutions manage data and how scholars disseminate this data. We hope to become a forum for the larger issues of data collection, assessment and online learning. We look forward to keeping the great conversation alive.

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