{"product_id":"the-distributed-classroom-isbn-9780262046053","title":"The Distributed Classroom","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vision of the future of education in which the classroom experience is distributed across space and time without compromising learning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Distributed Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.Series Foreword\u003cbr\u003ePreface on COVID-19\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Where We Are Now\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: The Classic Dichotomy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Place and Time\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Progress So Far\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: What We Do Next\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Distributed Classroom Matrix\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Symmetry\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Practical Considerations\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: The Places We'll Go\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: From Stopgap to Snowball\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: The Distributed Campus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Fears, Risks, and Other Scary Words\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Lifelong Learning for All\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Given global turbulence and disruption, we must learn lifelong and life-wide. This valuable book describes how the personal presence provided by ‘distributed classrooms’ provides the continuous motivational and social support necessary to sustain this.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eChris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard University; coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Joyner and Isbell offer innovative solutions to problems that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed in our adoption of new learning modalities. Working from experience, they show how the benefits of the classroom experience can be brought to a variety of course concepts and to categories of learners that have not been adequately served by existing methods of delivery.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMichael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Distributed Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece by leading practitioners of online learning. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand how education will unfold through the twenty-first century.”\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Oakley,\u003cb\u003e Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Oakland University; creator of the popular MOOC \u003ci\u003eLearning How to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e; Coursera’s Inaugural Innovation Instructor\u003c\/b\u003eDavid 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.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302632607973,"sku":"NP9780262046053","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262046053.jpg?v=1767739038","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-distributed-classroom-isbn-9780262046053","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}