The 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): 150 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 168 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 Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• 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)

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.

Kim, Joshua
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. 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.