Communication and Collaboration in the Online Classroom
Examples and Applications
JB - Anker
What is the appropriate role of technology in teaching and learning
environments? In this collection of essays, technology is described
as an enabler. The contributing authors explain and analyze the
ways in which they have incorporated interactive technologies into
their instructional practices and curriculum. Each of these
case studies provides readers with a frame for understanding the
relationships between technology and the processes of communicating
and learning in instructional settings.
This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of
the human communication issues that must be addressed in higher
education as interactive technologies evolve and continue to impact
instructional design and practice. It is organized into three
sections: the first, Program Development for Distance Education,
presents the authors' efforts to adapt and develop graduate degree
programs for distance education; the second, Professional
Collaborative Endeavors: Teaching Across the Distance, examines
courses taught in audio/video environments as well as online
team-taught courses; the third, Creating Online Learning
Communities: A Focus on Communication and Student-Centered Learning
in Virtual Classrooms, describes the tools and objective involved
in creating online learning communities.
Written for faculty, administrators, graduate students, and
scholars in higher education, this book is a useful guide for
anyone with a particular interest in communication and
collaborative learning in the online environment.
About the Contributors.
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Collaboration, Communication, Teaching, and
Learning: A Theoretical Foundation and Frame (Patricia Comeaux,
University of North Carolina, Wilmington).
SECTION I: PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR DISTANCE
EDUCATION.
1 Developing an MBA Online Degree Program: Expanding Knowledge
and Skills Via Technology-Mediated Learning Communities (Richard
G. Milter, Ohio University).
2 Collaborative Instructional Design for an Internet-Based
Graduate Degree Program (Mary Anne Nixon and Beth Rodgers
Leftwich, Western Carolina University).
3 Degrees and Programs by Distance Education: Defining Need and
Finding Support Through Collaboration (Frank Fuller, Ronald
McBride, and Robert Gillan, Northwestern State University).
4 Beyond Demographics, Content, and Technology: The Impact of
Culture on the Design and Implementation of a Distance Education
Program (Richard Olsen, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington; Robert Schihl, Regent University).
SECTION II: PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIVE ENDEAVORS: TEACHING
ACROSS THE DISTANCE.
5 Virtual Visiting Professors: Communicative, Pedagogical, and
Technological Collaboration (Scott A. Chadwick, Iowa State
University; Tracy Callaway Russo, University of Kansas).
6 Intrapersonal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and
Computer-Mediated Communication: A Synergetic Collaboration
(Leonard J. Shedletsky, University of Southern Maine; Joan E.
Aitken, University of Missouri, Kansas City).
7 Collaborating on the Instructional Design and Implementation
of an Environmental Education Course: The Real Challengesof
Collaboration (Richard Huber, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington).
8 Pedagogy and Process: Linking Two Diversity and Communication
Courses Through Interactive Television (Deborah Brunson,
University of North Carolina, Wilmington; Nina-Jo Moore,
Appalachian State University).
9 Camera Presentation Perspectives and Techniques in an
Interactive Audio/Video Instructional Environment: A Rhetorical
Perspective (Frank P. Trimble, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington).
SECTION III: CREATING ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES: A FOCUS ON
COMMUNICATION AND STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING IN THE VIRTUAL
CLASSROOM.
10 Planet Xeno: Creating a Collaborative Computer-Mediated
Communication Culture (Mary E. Wildner-Bassett, University of
Arizona).
11 Designing and Implementing an Interactive Online Learning
Environment (Mahnaz Moallem, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington).
12 Communicating: The key to Success in an Online Writing and
Reading Course (Ele Byington, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington).
13 Fostering Intellectual Development in a Learning Community:
Using an Electronic Bulletin Board (Mary Bozik and Karen Tracey,
University of Northern Iowa).
14 Building a Communications Learning Community (Patricia
Worrall and Brian Kline, Gainesville College).
Conclusion: Teaching and Learning with Interactive Technologies:
What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? (Patricia Comeaux,
University of North Carolina, Wilmington).
Bibliography.
Index.