Low-Density University

15 Scenarios for Higher Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4317-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 164 g

COVID-19 has placed American higher education at a crossroads. This book is the roadmap.

COVID-19 triggered an existential crisis for American higher education. Faced with few safe choices, most colleges and universities switched to remote learning during the 2020 spring semester. The future, however, provides more choices about how institutions can fulfill their mission of teaching and research. But how do we begin to make decisions in an uncertain and shifting environment? In this concise guide, authors Edward J. Maloney and Joshua Kim lay out clear ways colleges and universities can move forward in safe and effective ways.

The Low-Density University presents fifteen scenarios for how colleges and universities can address the current crisis from a fully online semester to others with students in residence and in the classroom. How can changing the calendar or shifting to hybrid models of blended classrooms impact teaching, learning, and the college experience? Could we emerge from this crisis with new models that are better and more adapted to today's world?

The Low-Density University focuses primarily on teaching and learning, but student life (housing, athletics, health, etc.) are core to the college experience. Can we devise safe and effective ways to preserve the best of that experience? The lessons here extend beyond the classroom. Just as the pandemic will change American higher education, the choices we make now will change what college looks like for generations to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maloney, Edward J

Kim, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Part I. Fifteen Scenarios
Chapter 1. Back to Normal
Chapter 2. Late Start

Chapter 3. Moving Fall to Spring

Chapter 4. First-Year Intensive

Chapter 5. Graduate Students Only

Chapter 6. Structured Gap Year

Chapter 7. Targeted Curriculum

Chapter 8. Split Curriculum

Chapter 9. Block Plan

Chapter 10. Modularity

Chapter 11. Students in Residence Learning Virtually

Chapter 12. Low-Residency

Chapter 13. HyFlex

Chapter 14. Modified Tutorial

Chapter 15. Fully Remote

Part II. Equity, Place, and Learning

Part III. Next Steps

Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Kim, Joshua
Joshua Kim is the Assistant Provost for Online Learning Strategy at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning and a senior fellow at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. He is a coauthor of Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education.

Maloney, Edward J
Edward J. Maloney is a professor of English at Georgetown University, where he is the executive director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and the founding director of the Program in Learning, Design, and Technology. He is a coauthor of Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education.

Edward J. Maloney is a professor of English at Georgetown University, where he is the executive director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and the founding director of the Program in Learning, Design, and Technology. Joshua Kim is the director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning and a senior fellow at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. Maloney and Kim are the coauthors of Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education.