Institutional transformation through best practices in virtual campus development: advancing E-learning policies

Mark Stansfield, Mark Stansfield, Thomas Connolly9781605663586, 1605663581, 9781605663593, 160566359X

The Internet has had a monumental impact upon higher education with the development of e-learning and virtual campus initiatives. This has provided significant opportunities in terms of enhanced access to courses, knowledge, learning experiences, and information for a wide range of different learners from across the world.
Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies provides cost effective and sustainable learning procedures vital to ensuring long-term success for both teacher and student. This book contains the latest research and findings in relation to best practice examples and case studies across the globe.

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Table of contents :
Title……Page 2
List of Reviewers……Page 4
Table of Contents……Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents……Page 9
Foreword……Page 18
Preface……Page 20
Acknowledgment……Page 26
The E-Learning Phenomenon:
A New University Paradigm?……Page 28
Linking Self-Directed Lifelong
Learning and E-Learning:
Priorities for Institutions of
Higher Education……Page 49
The Online Seminar as
Enacted Practice……Page 65
Is E-Learning Used for
Enhancing Administration
or Learning?
On the Implications of
Organisational Culture……Page 82
Advancing E-Learning
Policy and Practice:
Influences on Academics’ Adoption,
Integration and Development of
Multimodal E-Learning Courses……Page 92
Flying Under the Radar:
The Importance of Small Scale E-Learning
Innovation within Large-Scale Institutional
E-Learning Implementation……Page 108
Matching Technology,
Organisation and Pedagogy
in E-Learning:
Looking for the Appropriate Balance
Leading to Sustainability and Effectiveness……Page 122
E-Learning and Virtual
Campus Development:
From Innovation to Sustainability……Page 142
An Analysis of European
Megaproviders of E-Learning:
Recommendations for Robustness and
Sustainability……Page 154
Guiding Principles for
Identifying and Promoting Best
Practice in Virtual Campuses……Page 174
Reviewing Traces of
Virtual Campuses:
From a Fully Online Virtual Campus
to a Blended Model……Page 190
Virtual Campus Development
on the Basis of Subsidiarity:
The EVS Approach……Page 206
From Virtual Mobility to
Virtual Erasmus:
Offering Students Courses and
Services without Boundaries……Page 225
Blending Virtual Campuses
Managing Differences through
Web 2.0 Experiences in
Transnational Cooperation
Projects……Page 242
Network Organisation to
Improve Virtual
Campus Management:
Key Factors from a
French Experience……Page 262
Developing and Managing an
Effective Virtual Campus:
The eLab Experience in the Swiss Higher
Education Context……Page 281
A Business Model for the
Exchange of E-Learning
Courses in an International
Network……Page 296
Compilation of References……Page 316
About the Contributors……Page 342
Index……Page 352