Creating Teacher Immediacy in Online Learning Environments

D'agustino, Steven (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1466699957 / ISBN 13: 9781466699953

Published by Information Science Reference, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Teacher Immediacy in Online Learning Environments
• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466699957
• ISBN 13: 9781466699953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Educators are finding that communication and interaction are at the core of a successful web-based classroom. This interactivity fosters community, which contributes to effective and meaningful learning. Positive online communities and the communication therein encourage students to interact with others’ views which not only grows one’s empathy, but is an integral part of constructivist learning theories. Because of this, the most important role of an educator in an online class is one that ensures student interactivity and engagement. Creating Teacher Immediacy in Online Learning Environments addresses the most effective models and strategies for nurturing teacher immediacy in web-based and virtual learning environments. A number of innovative methods for building an authentic, personalized online learning experience are outlined and discussed at length within this publication, providing solutions for pre-service as well as in-service educators. This book is a valuable compilation of research for course designers, faculty, students of education, administration, software designers, and higher education researchers.

About the Author

Steven DAgustino holds a doctorate from Fordham Universitys Graduate School of Education and is the Director of Online Learning for the Office of the Provost where his responsibilities include supporting the development of distance learning programs across Fordham University. He has published research in the area of instructional enhancement through the integration of technology and has been awarded a number of grants while at Fordham, the largest of which was a 2.5 million dollar grant to provide access to technology through online learning. Dr. DAgustino is the editor of two books: Adaptation, Resistance and Access to Instructional Technologies and Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities, and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education published in 2010 and 2012, respectively. His most recent publications, both in 2013, include Toward a course conversion model for distance learning: a review of best practices in Frontiers of Distance Learning in Business Education and Providing innovative opportunities and options through online credit recovery and afterschool programs in Expanding Minds and Opportunities.