Game changers
Subtitle: education and information technologies
By: edited by Diana G. Oblinger
Contributors: EDUCAUSE (Association)
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781933046006
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Educational change; Higher Education; Effect of technological innovations on; Social aspects; Educational technology; HIGHER EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL CHANGE; Technological innovations; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
Description: The knowledge economy - Setting priorities for higher education in our technology-rich world - IT as game changer - Analytics' role in changing the learning environment - IT innovation and the nontraditional learner - Why openness in education? - Nonprofit/For profit academic partnerships in higher education - Fout ideas to increase college completion - Western Governors University - University of Phoenix - SUNY Empire State College - Athabasca University - Providing quality higher education foir adults - University of the people - The Open Learning initiative - How 'Online learning' is becoming 'Learning' - Outsourcing online learning - 21 case studies from American universities and colleges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also available in electronic formats (html and pdf).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Molly Corbett Broad; title: Introduction  -- Diana G. Oblinger; title: The knowledge economy : challenges and opportunities for American higher education  -- Paul E. Lingenfelter; title: The questions we need to ask first : setting priorities for higher education in our technology-rich world  -- Debra Humphreys; title: IT as a game changer  -- Diana G. Oblinger; title: From metrics to analytics, reporting to action : analytics' role in changing the learning environment  -- Linda Baer and John Campbell; title: IT innovations and the nontraditional learner  -- Pamela Tate and Rebecca Klein-Collins; title: Why openness in education?  -- David Wiley and Cable Green; title: Early days of a growing trend : nonprofit/for-profit academic partnerships in higher education  -- Daniel Pianko and Josh Jarrett; title: Scaling up : four ideas to increase college completion  -- Vernon C. Smith; title: Western Governors University  -- Robert W. Mendenhall; title: University of Phoenix  -- William (Bill) Pepicello; title: SUNY Empire State College : a game changer in open learning  -- Meg Benke, Alan Davis, and Nan L. Travers; title: Athabasca University : Canada's Open University  -- Dietmar Kennepohl, Cindy Ives, and Brian Stewart; title: Providing quality higher education for adults  -- Susan C. Aldridge; title: University of the People  -- Shai Reshef; title: The open learning initiative : enacting instruction online  -- Ross Strader and Candace Thille; title: The postmodality era : how 'online learning' is becoming 'learning'  -- Thomas B. Cavanagh; title: Going the distance : outsourcing online learning  -- Susan E. Metros and Joan Falkenberg Getman; title: Case Studies.