A vision of the future of education in which the classroom experience is distributed across space and time without compromising learning.
What if there were a model for learning in which the classroom experience was distributed across space and time--and students could still have the benefits of the traditional classroom, even if they can't be present physically or learn synchronously? In this book, two experts in online learning envision a future in which education from kindergarten through graduate school need not be tethered to a single physical classroom. The distributed classroom would neither sacrifice students' social learning experience nor require massive development resources. It goes beyond hybrid learning, so ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic, and MOOCs, so trendy a few years ago, to reimagine the classroom itself.
David Joyner and Charles Isbell, both of Georgia Tech, explain how recent developments, including distance learning and learning management systems, have paved the way for the distributed classroom. They propose that we dispense with the dichotomy between online and traditional education, and the assumption that online learning is necessarily inferior. They describe the distributed classroom's various delivery modes for in-person students, remote synchronous students, and remote asynchronous students; the goal would be a symmetry of experiences, with both students and teachers able to move from one mode to another. With The Distributed Classroom, Joyner and Isbell offer an optimistic, learner-centric view of the future of education, in which every person on earth is turned into a potential learner as barriers of cost, geography, and synchronicity disappear.
By:
David A. Joyner,
Charles Isbell
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 133mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547291
ISBN 10: 0262547295
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Series Foreword Preface on COVID-19 Part 1: Where We Are Now Chapter 1: The Classic Dichotomy Chapter 2: Place and Time Chapter 3: Progress So Far Part 2: What We Do Next Chapter 4: The Distributed Classroom Matrix Chapter 5: Symmetry Chapter 6: Practical Considerations Part 3: The Places We'll Go Chapter 7: From Stopgap to Snowball Chapter 8: The Distributed Campus Chapter 9: Fears, Risks, and Other Scary Words Chapter 10: Lifelong Learning for All Acknowledgments Notes Index
David A. Joyner is Executive Director of Online Educationand the Online Master of Science in Computer Science program in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Charles Isbell is John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgie Institute of Technology.
