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A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing Our Schools and Collegesreviewed by David Stoloff - 2004 Title: A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing Our Schools and Colleges Author(s): Gene Maeroff Publisher: Palgrave/MacMillan, New York ISBN: 1403960852 , Pages: 306, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Gene Maeroff has provided the education community with a service
through his status report on online learning and teaching in A
Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing Our Schools
and Colleges.
Recognizing the difficulties in chronicling the dynamic force of
online learning, he notes that most of the book is written in the
past tense, and the challenge of writing was like taking “a
snapshot of a cyclone” (page xi). Maeroff suspects that
ultimately online courses “will work best and prove most
attractive when directed at mature adult learners” (page
xii).
The text begins with a global perspective on online learning for
both K through 12 education and higher education. Chapter 2
revisits the history of distance learning and concerns about
content, design, and instruction. Chapters 3 through 6 focus
on the nature of interactions and facilitating conversations within
online learning and the responsibilities of both the learners and
the instructors in achieving successful experiences at a
distance. Chapters 7 and 8 raise the issues of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- David Stoloff
Eastern Connecticut State University E-mail Author DAVID STOLOFF is Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut. He also coordinates an online Master of Science in Educational Technology program and the Connecticut State Department of Education-funded EFFECT Project (Experiences for Future Connecticut Teachers), which integrates web-based communications to recruit high school students into teaching. His research interests include online learning and teaching, international and cross-cultural education, and educational reform.
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