Online Education Past, Current, and Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Chidi Nduagbo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future

This chapter addresses the paradigmatic shift in traditional education. It presents a historical overview of online education as a content and framework for understanding its current state and highlights how online education has become entrenched in business and in higher education worldwide. Beginning with distance education's contributions to the paradigmatic shift, this chapter provides a framework for understanding online education. It focuses on the connections and contributions of distance education to present day online education, the current trends in online education, and the projections of the future of online education. This chapter concludes that the nature and practice of online education across the globe will change in the next few years.

Repurposing Educational Content into an International Market

2011 ◽  
pp. 1754-1757
Author(s):  
Evan T. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
International Market ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
The Right

The intent of action is the achievement of something decisive. Within any business, decisiveness is hopefully linked to the successful generation of revenue due to the right product being introduced to the right market at the right time. The challenge is to ensure that once a product is released to the market, the most revenue possible can be earned. In the case of higher education, one potential product is online education offerings that provide learning opportunities to students who cannot participate in a traditional education. The development of digitized educational materials for online use, however, can be costly and subsequent revenue streams may generate little or no revenue, which has occurred in some instances for distance education programs.

scholarly journals The Development of Distance Education Systems in Turkey, the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Zawacki-Richter ◽  
Yasar Kondakci ◽  
Svenja Bedenlier ◽  
Uthman Alturki ◽  
Ahmed Aldraiweesh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Russian Federation

Abstract In many countries, open and distance education is perceived as a way to meet the growing need for higher education. This paper explores the development of online and distance education in three countries that are still a white spot on the landscape of international distance education research although they have implemented elaborated distance education systems: Turkey, Russia and Saudi-Arabia. In order to understand the current state of distance education systems in the three countries, their respective systems are described from a historical perspective, compared in regard to their organization, important institutions for open and distance education and current developments. This comparative analysis directs the focus on little investigated education systems and contributes to an enhanced understanding of their past, present, and future.

Conceptualizing international positioning strategies for Indian higher education institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhir Rana ◽  
Shubhangi Verma ◽  
Moon Moon Haque ◽  
Gouher Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Indian Higher Education

Purpose The manuscript reflects on the future of higher education from an emerging country perspective. The authors specifically answer how new education policies, ranking and accreditation are impacting the current state of Indian higher education institutions (IHEIs) and how IHEIs can cultivate their path towards positioning themselves internationally. This study aims to bring together existing scenarios and to serve as a springboard for future research and applications. Design/methodology/approach The manuscript is designed and executed as a conceptual study exploring the current state and prospects for IHEIs. The study synthesizes the concepts of positioning strategies in context to IHEIs. A conceptual diagram integrating existing concepts from marketing, total quality management and business education is created to understand the phenomenon among the IHEIs stakeholders. Findings The authors found that IHEIs started showing their international presence yet they are facing various challenges (government bureaucracy; international salary standards; global student population; and cultural sensitivity). The authors also found that the positioning problem is not a one-time attempt; the complexity of higher education is a “wicked problem” and, hence needs to be evaluated, changed and executed continuously. The manuscript offers relevant information to IHEIs leaders and stakeholders to improve on their international positioning strategies and proposes avenues for future research. Originality/value The study outlines future development and positioning strategic plans that IHEIs may consider and reflect in their strategic plan. The conceptual diagram on achieving successful international positioning and problem areas is expected to act as a guidebook for the key decision-makers. The focus is on distinguishing the imperatives, creating a key guide for meeting immediate requirements, allotting assets prudently to update their international presence. The study will provide IHEIs with a new lease of life in the future.

Informational Competencies Entrepreneurship and Integral Values in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 541-562
Author(s):  
José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez ◽  
Edgar Muñiz-Ávila ◽  
Delia Lizette Huezo-Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Business Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Universities play a key role in modern societies inserted into a globalized economic world. This chapter studies how informational competencies, entrepreneurship, and integral values in higher education are necessary to foster economic growth and fight corruption. The authors especially are focused on distance education as it can be a tool to fight poverty by diminishing high illiteracy rates, mainly existing in developing countries. The purpose of the chapter is two-fold: 1) to study the impact of informational competencies in both education and entrepreneurship, and 2) to emphasize the importance of acquiring integral values by learners to be applied into educational processes based on emotional intelligence. As a result, students will be defined as prospective entrepreneurs endowed with the ability to recognize, internalize and understand emotions to be adjusted into relations and business behavior to impulse their goals. And in this sense, online education has an important role to play, especially in postgraduate studies, as in the case of MOOCs that are also analyzed.

Informational Competencies Entrepreneurship and Integral Values in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez ◽  
Edgar Muñiz-Ávila ◽  
Delia Lizette Huezo-Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Business Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Universities play a key role in modern societies inserted into a globalized economic world. This chapter studies how informational competencies, entrepreneurship, and integral values in higher education are necessary to foster economic growth and fight corruption. The authors especially are focused on distance education as it can be a tool to fight poverty by diminishing high illiteracy rates, mainly existing in developing countries. The purpose of the chapter is two-fold: 1) to study the impact of informational competencies in both education and entrepreneurship, and 2) to emphasize the importance of acquiring integral values by learners to be applied into educational processes based on emotional intelligence. As a result, students will be defined as prospective entrepreneurs endowed with the ability to recognize, internalize and understand emotions to be adjusted into relations and business behavior to impulse their goals. And in this sense, online education has an important role to play, especially in postgraduate studies, as in the case of MOOCs that are also analyzed.

PROBLEMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL DIGITALIZATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
V. E. Melnikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Organization

The article considers the system of digitalization of higher education, where the problems associated with the introduction of digital technologies and tools into the educational process with the transition to online learning are identified. It is shown that digitalization makes significant changes in modern higher education. The transition to online education creates a need to change the management of an educational organization.

Distance Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Ahmet Çetinkaya ◽  
Ali Murat Kırık
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Interpersonal Contact ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Almost All ◽  
New Education

As the COVID-19 disease rapidly transmitted through interpersonal contact, it required people to avoid physical contact. Almost all countries in the world have suspended the education of children and youth, a highly active network, and switched to online education to reduce the spread of the virus. Distance education, unlike the traditional education system, has a structure that does not require students to be on a campus or be in the same environment with instructors. As the global epidemic broke out, the distance education system was reviewed, and a new education order started to be established. Students, parents, and teachers found themselves in a situation they were not used to before. In this study, the advantages and disadvantages of distance education are analyzed, hybrid and hybrid-flexible (hyflex) models are examined, the educational changes during the pandemic period as well as the anticipations of the post-pandemic period are reviewed, and lastly, future educational solutions are proposed.

Benefits of a Content Multi-Purposing Model

2011 ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
Evan T. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
The Right

The intent of action is the achievement of something decisive. Within any business, decisiveness is hopefully linked to the successful generation of revenue due to the right product being introduced to the right market at the right time. The challenge is to ensure that once a product is released to the market, that the most revenue possible can be earned. In the case of higher education, one potential product is distance education offerings that provide learning opportunities to students who cannot participate in traditional education. The development of distance educational materials for online use, however, can be costly, and subsequent revenue streams may generates little or no revenue, which occurs with many distance education programs. This can be resolved, however, by the strategic re-purposing of online course materials that may have been developed for distance education.

scholarly journals Places of Engagement

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large number of conversations with leaders in higher education worldwide. This book, 'Places of Engagement', offer reflections on themes discussed by Van der Zwaan, written by twenty of his peers and other opinion leaders from around the world. The book was written in honour of Bert van der Zwaan at the occasion of his departure as Vice-Chancellor of Utrecht University. With contributions by John Sexton, José van Dijck, Karl Dittrich, Dilly Fung, Michael Crow and many others.

scholarly journals Navigating Distance and Traditional Higher Education: Online faculty experiences

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice G. Yick ◽  
Pam Patrick ◽  
Amanda Costin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Online Faculty ◽  
Faculty Experiences

<P>The academic culture of higher educational institutions is characterized by specific pedagogical philosophies, assumptions about rewards and incentives, and values about how teaching is delivered. In many academic settings, however, the field of distance education has been viewed as holding marginal status. Consequently, the goal of this qualitative study was to explore faculty members&rsquo; experiences in a distance education, online university while simultaneously navigating within a traditional environment of higher education. A total of 28 faculty members participated in a threaded, asynchronous discussion board that resembled a focus group. Participants discussed perceptions about online teaching, working in an institution without a traditional tenure system, and the role of research in distance education. Findings indicated that online teaching is still regarded as less credible; however, participants also noted how this perception is gradually changing. Several benchmarks of legitimacy were identified for online universities to adopt in order to be viewed as credible. The issue of tenure still remains highly debated, although some faculty felt that tenure will be less crucial in the future. Finally, recommendations regarding attitudinal shifts within academic circles are described with particular attention to professional practice, program development, and policy decision-making in academia.</P> <P><B>Key words:</B> distance education, online education, online faculty experiences, academia, tenure</P>

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