Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices (Premier Reference Source)

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Higher education is currently undergoing significant changes, and conditions in higher education reflect changing financial, social, and political conditions, which affect both faculty and students. Both the rising costs of education and changes from brick-and-mortar to technologically-driven programs often lead to a change from the traditional space-and-time bound institution to ones that offer cost-effective technologically enhanced programs. Online learning has become an integral and expansive factor in higher education both in distance learning and as an adjunct to the traditional classroom. Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of online learning by introducing a variety of online instructional models as well as best practices that help educators and professional trainers to better understand the dynamics of online learning.

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Robert Zheng (Ed.D., Baylor University, 1998) is an assistant professor and program director in the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah, USA. His research agenda include online learning and pedagogy, multimedia and cognition, and educational technology and assessment. He has authored and co-authored several book chapters and published papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics of cognitive load, multimedia, Web-based instruction, and problem solving in multimedia learning. Sharmila Pixy Ferris (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995) is Professor in the Department of Communication and Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence at William Paterson University, USA. Her research brings an interdisciplinary focus to the study of computer-mediated communication, where she studies gender, small groups, orality and literacy, and adoption patterns. She has edited Teaching and Learning with Virtual Teams (2006, Idea Group Publishing), Virtual and Collaborative Teams (2004, Idea Group Publishing), and authored Beyond Survival in the Academy (2003, Hampton Press). Her publications encompass a variety of paper and electronic journals including Qualitative Research Reports, The New Jersey Journal of Communication, The Electronic Journal of Communication, Interpersonal Computing and Technology, and The Journal of Electronic Publishing.