Research on Online Education
From WikEd
- Pedagogical Research on Online Education, Its Results And Its Implications For Higher Education.
- Subgroup Members: Angela Benson, Amanda Cash, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Ricki Loar, Rae-Anne Montague, Patricia Petrie
- Inspect and contribute to the other working groups: State of Online Education at U of I, Big Picture and Wish List, and Examination of Online Education Beyond UIUC.
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Research Questions and Priorities for Online Education in Higher Education
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Defining Elearning
An important issue is defining the scope of elearning so that appropriate research practices and literatures can be brought to bear on the problem. Currently research from many fields and areas are relevant including Education, Information Science, Communications, Management and Administration, and Computer Science. These fields bring attention to pedagogy, information dissemination, library support, online conversation, computer-mediated communication, virtual community, learning communities, communities of practice, systems management, higher education administration, computer-supported cooperative work, and systems design and implementation.
See also UGWiki site for a growing definition of elearning [[1]]
Resources on Online Education in Higher Education
Bibliographies
LEEP bibliography - This is a listing of reports, news articles and research papers on the Library Education Experimental Program (LEEP), at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), UIUC.
HRE Online bibliography- This is a listing of research papers and reports on the HRE Online programs in the Department of Human Resource Education (HRE) in the College of Education, UIUC.
CTER bibliography- This is a listing of reports, news articles and research papers on the Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform (CTER) program in the the Educational Psychology department in the College of Education, UIUC.
KLSG bibliography - 1 This is a partial listing of presentations related to online learning by the The Knowledge and Learning Systems Group (KLSG), NCSA, UIUC.
KLSG bibliography - 2 This is a partial listing of publications related to online learning by the The Knowledge and Learning Systems Group (KLSG), NCSA, UIUC.
Writing Studies/Distance Learning Bibliography This is a personal bibliography, compiled for Ph.D. qualifying exams in Writing Studies. It has three sections: Writing, Technology, and Pedagogy; Learning and Higher Education: Theories, Histories, and Methodologies; and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Distance Learning.
Books and Collected Editions
Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M.M. (Eds.) (2004). Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang.
This edited volume brings together papers on research and practice, with a focus on studies done on GSLIS' LEEP program.
