TEACHING ONLINE （上）ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT-_计算机网络论文.docVIP

TEACHING ONLINE （上）ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT-_计算机网络论文 TEACHING ONLINE （上）ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT?_计算机网络论文 Regional accreditation of Jones International University (JIU) - the first entirely virtual university accredited by the US regional accreditation agency - sparked heated discussions in academic circles. Concerns about changing roles of academia and faculty were countered with unbinding enthusiasm for the new teaching opportunities. This presentation uses notes form the 5 years of active online teaching at Jones International University as a base to examine what is changing in teaching, faculty roles, student responsibilities and collegiate culture when we decide to deliver education through a network of computers. KEYWORDS online teaching online learning virtual university online pedagogy INTRODUCTION It appears, based on archeological records, that people learned before we invented classroom. We have -- sometimes -- learned in them. I would hypothesize that we will somehow learn when the classrooms are no longer around. The question, of course is what we will learn.1 This statement by John McDaid names the central theme of my presentation. Based on the experience of five years of active teaching and administration at Jones International University (JIU) -- the first fully online, regionally accredited university in the United States -- I will attempt to outline changes to teaching and learning processes that happen when online environment replaces face to face classroom. After a short introduction of JIU’s teaching model I will focus on the following four questions. 1. How our teaching practices change when we teach online? 2. How does the role of faculty change in online environments? 3. How do the students’ responsibilities change in online environments? 4. How do we change our collegiate culture by creating online universities? My professional back