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Future of Online Education: Strategies for Moving from Access to Quality

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Future of Online Education: Strategies for Moving from Access to Quality

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  1. Future of Online Education: Strategies for Moving from Access to Quality

  2. Future of Online Education: Strategies for Moving from Access to Quality Online education’s first era was all about providing access. The second era is more about improving quality - not just for online education, but for all education. Unfortunately, most ideas about the cyberization of education advocate narrow, oversimplified viewpoints about how to improve the quality of online education. Online learning practitioners need a broader, unifying perspective - one that accommodates multiple perspectives and integrates these viewpoints into a larger context by showing how to move online education from access to quality improvement.   

  3. Defining “Cybersymbiosis” Objective: Identify the meaning of the term “cybersymbiosis” and discuss the depth of its consequences

  4. "Cybersymbiosis" • The integration and interdependency of human and computer interactions • Online education has "cyberized" society • Education has become "irretrievably dependent on digital technologies" (Sener, 2012, p. IX)

  5. Consequences • Access • Online roles and relationships • Knowledge redefined, absolute vs. relative core • Knowledge creation • Realigning education

  6. Seven Futures of Online Education Objective: Identify the Seven Futures of online education and apply the framework to your current institutional setting

  7. Six Levels of Change • Life resource • Learning resource • Education resource • Information, communication, and management delivery • Instructional delivery • Improved teaching and learning

  8. Improving education • Serves previously neglected or underserved populations • Expands access universally while preserving individual autonomy, dignity • Helps more learners live better lives in a knowledge economy • Reaches nontraditional students more effectively • Accommodates more lifelong learners in an ever-greater variety of ways • Increases chances of broadly defined student success (Senner, 2013, para. 1)

  9. The Shift • Redefining knowledge • Accelerating knowledge production • Connecting knowledge • Contextualizing learning • Shifting to multimedia • Redistributing access

  10. Strategies Objective: Formulate one or more strategies for using online education to improve quality

  11. Re-Empowering Learning and Teaching • Learning-centered engagement • Learner-generated content and knowledge • Event-anchored learning • Social and individualized learning • "Hooks" – human and techno • Assessment (Sener, 2012)

  12. Revitalizing the Education Enterprise • Expanding merit • Serving various types of learners • Re-empowering knowledge creation • Institutional assessment (Sener, 2012)

  13. Quality Improvement Objective: Share how you represent quality improvement and how you relate to one or more of the stated “futures” • What are your plans for improving the quality of online education? • How can you use the Seven Futures framework to guide your efforts?

  14. Action Steps Objective: Describe action steps for implementing one or more strategies in your setting, and discuss why those steps will be effective • What process will you use to implement strategies to improve online education? • How will you ensure that process is effective?

  15. References and Resources • McDaniel, J. (2012a, May 29). Shaking it up, part 1 — A conversation with John Sener, author of ‘The Seven Futures of American Education’ [Blog post]. Education Technology & Change. Retrieved from http://etcjournal.com/2012/05/29/shaking-it-up-part-1-a-conversation-with-john-sener-author-of-the-seven-futures-of-american-education/ • McDaniel, J. (2012b, May 30). Shaking it up, part 2 — A conversation with John Sener, author of ‘The Seven Futures of American Education’ [Blog post]. Education Technology & Change. Retrieved from http://etcjournal.com/2012/05/30/shaking-it-up-part-2-a-conversation-with-john-sener-author-of-the-seven-futures-of-american-education/ • McDaniel, J. (2012c, May 31). Shaking it up, part 3 — A conversation with John Sener, author of ‘The Seven Futures of American Education’ [Blog post]. Education Technology & Change. Retrieved from http://etcjournal.com/2012/05/31/shaking-it-up-part-3-a-conversation-with-john-sener-author-of-the-seven-futures-of-american-education/ • Sener, J. (2013, January 11). MOOCs and the seven futures (Part 2): MOOCs as access vehicles [Blog post]. The Seven Futures of American Education. Retrieved from http://www.thesevenfutures.com/blog/moocs-and-seven-futures-part-2-moocs-access-vehicles • Sener, J. (2012).The seven futures of American education: Improving learning & teaching in a screen-captured world. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace.

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