Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education provides a practical approach for building authentic learning experiences into the design and delivery of online teaching and learning systems.
Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education provides a practical approach for building authentic learning experiences into the design and delivery of online teaching and learning systems. Combining three conceptually related ideascomplexity theory, transformative learning, and the Community of Inquirythis novel, highly applicable framework enables instructors to create compelling virtual learning experiences for students. As higher education faculty, instructional designers, and graduate students shift from presenting information to creating experiences, the book offers an evidence-based disruption of the current thinking on and practice of course design.
Section 1: Theory
1. Openness to Otherness
2. Transformative Learning
Theory
3. Community of Inquiry
4. Transformative Learning within a Community
of Inquiry
5. Complexity Theory Section 2: Practice
6. The Space
7. The
Opportunity
8. Transformation in PracticeMore than Just a Practice
Patrick R. Dempsey is Education Faculty and Director of the Office of Digital Teaching & Learning at Loyola University, USA.
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