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Project Management Approaches for Online Learning Design

Project Management Approaches for Online Learning Design
Author(s)/Editor(s): Gulsun Kurubacak (Anadolu University, Turkey)and T. Volkan Yuzer (Anadolu University, Turkey)
Copyright: ©2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2830-4
ISBN13: 9781466628304
ISBN10: 1466628308
EISBN13: 9781466628311

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Developments in online learning and its design are areas that continue to grow in order to enhance students’ learning environments and experiences. However, in the implementation of new technologies, the importance of properly and fairly overseeing these courses is often undervalued.

Project Management Approaches for Online Learning Design boldly focuses on this unique area of virtual learning by adopting a theoretical point of view and discussing the planning, organizing, securing and managing of resources to bring about the successful completion of online learning goals and objectives. This reference source brings together project management based approaches with an exclusive focus on each online learning design project.



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For professionals, scholars, and students from various fields, Eby and Yuzer assemble 17 chapters by education, technology, instructional design, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, the US, and Brazil, who discuss the dimensions, components, and characteristics of project management-based design for online learning. They focus on the communication management, implementation management, human resources management, quality management, and risk management perspectives of online learning design and its models, and how planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources can bring about the successful completion of learning goals and objectives. Chapters describe project-based e-learning and collaborative e-learning approaches; the concept of online freedom; learning project management; the importance of e-learning accessibility; the development of algorithms, software and hardware for avatar management, and avatar moderator training systems; using a public relations process in setting up websites; cost estimations for the preparation of project management plans of e-learning systems; the importance of strategic planning; sustainability issues; and case studies of online learning design for professional learning communities, a high school, and multicultural and bilingual teacher education curricula, among others.

– Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

The contributors present theoretical points of view as well as empirical evidence of how to effectively design online learning modules that will enhance learning environments and student experiences. This work includes both a basic table of contents, and a detailed table of contents that includes abstracts for each chapter. Each chapter includes examples and references as well as a discussion of what has been done in the situation. Many chapters also include a glossary of key terms. The editors provide a compiled list of references from all chapters, and an index to the work as a whole.

– Sara Marcus, American Reference Books Annual

Author's/Editor's Biography

Gulsun Kurubacak (Ed.)
Gulsun Kurubacak is an Associate Professor in Applied Communication at the College of Open Education of Anadolu University. She undertook graduate studies at Anadolu University, Turkey (MA. Educational Technology) and at the University of Cincinnati, USA (Ed.D. Curriculum & Instruction). Dr. Eby has over twenty-five years experience in focusing on the democratic and multicultural aspects of distance education. Her research includes finding new answers, viewpoints, and explanations to online communication problems through critical pedagogy, and improving learner critical thinking skills through project-based online learning. She continues to manage and provide pedagogical support for distance learning programs.

T. Volkan Yuzer (Ed.)
T. Volkan Yuzer is an Associate Professor in Applied Communication at the College of Open Education, Anadolu University, Turkey. His research interests are new communication technologies, synchronous, asynchronous, and interactive communications, and transformative learning milieus in distance and online education. He has over fifteen years experience in exploring additional distance learning media and providing communication and technological support for distance learning programs as well as developing online learning courses. He has participated in projects related to distance learning, online synchronous learning, and the virtual classroom.

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