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Leading and Managing e-Learning

What the e-Learning Leader Needs to Know

  • Focuses on up-to-date information on establishing and managing online learning and distance education programs
  • Gives practical solutions to dealing with issues related to online and distance education
  • Provides knowledge of different technologies and infrastructure necessary for competent decision-making

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Quality Online Learning: e-Learning Strategies for Higher Education

    • Andrea Gregg, Cathy Holsing, Stevie Rocco
    Pages 13-27
  3. Centralized and Decentralized Approaches to Managing Online Programs

    • Meridith Z. Bergeron, Sarah C. Fornero
    Pages 29-43
  4. Establishing an e-Learning Division

    • Lisa L. Templeton, Kathryn E. Linder
    Pages 45-59
  5. Structuring and Resourcing Your eLearning Unit

    • Camille Dickson-Deane, Denise Tolbert, Tracy McMahon, Camille Funk
    Pages 61-72
  6. Information Policy and e-Learning

    • Dian Walster
    Pages 141-154
  7. Motivating Instructors and Administrators to Adopt e-Learning

    • Lauren Cifuentes, Rinki Suryavanshi, Alexandra Janney
    Pages 189-202
  8. Collaborative Management of the eLearning Design and Development Process

    • Deborah S. Slaughter, Megan C. Murtaugh
    Pages 253-269

About this book

This book provides state-of-the-art knowledge on how to establish, organize, staff, and develop online education/e-learning programs. It strengthens knowledge of the different technologies, infrastructure and issues necessary for leaders and managers to make competent decisions. It is the most comprehensive guide for administrative practice currently available for e-learning leaders and managers.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Sullivan University, Louisville, USA

    Anthony A. Piña

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Victoria L. Lowell

  • Dixie State University, Saint George, USA

    Bruce R. Harris

About the editors

Anthony A. Piña is Associate Provost at Sullivan University, Louisville, Kentucky, where he oversees academics and development for 30 fully online degree programs (including a Ph.D.) and over 600 online and hybrid courses taught by more than 150 faculty. He is Past-President of the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and has served on the AECT Board of Directors. Tony has been a consultant to Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, local government agencies, educational institutions and the U.S. Military. He is author or editor of four books and has over 50 academic publications. He serves on the editorial boards of three scholarly journals and has been a guest editor of Tech Trends and of the Quarterly Review of Distance Education. Tony received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University, did post-graduate work at Arizona State University, completed his doctorate at La Sierra University,and earned a post-doctoral master’s degree from Sullivan University. He is married and the father of six children--four biological and two adopted.

Victoria L. Lowell is Program Convener of the Online Master of Science in Education (MSEd), in Learning Design and Technology program at Purdue University, Indiana’s second largest university, where she oversees 45+ professors and 230+ students. She holds a PhD in Education, with a dual concentration in Distance Education and Higher Education Institutional Policy Planning and a MEd in Educational Technology. At Purdue she conducts research on issues pertaining to online learning and teaching, instructional strategies, and leading online programs. She has authored and edited numerous articles and presented over 50 presentations related to online learning and educational technology. She has worked in the field of education for twenty years teaching, researching, advising students and serving in various higher education administration roles, including, Director of Professional Licensure Programs and Director of Instructional and Web Technologies at Regent University. For Regent University, she led the development the university’s online continuing education programs. She has served as a consultant for higher education institutions, developed and evaluated online programs, and she has taught at K-12 and university levels, face-to-face, blended/hybrid and online. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Division of Distance Learning (DDL) of the Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT).

Bruce R. Harris has worked as an instructional designer for several companies and organizations and has consulted with many clients such as Motorola, Sullivan University, Illinois State Museum, K-12 school districts, etc. He completed his doctorate in Instructional Science at Brigham Young University. For 24 years he was a professor of Instructional Design and Technology and served in several leadership roles at Western Illinois University. He has published over 20 academic publications and has presented over 130 papers at professional conferences on such topics as self-regulated learning, effective online learning programs and strategies, evaluating quality online teaching, etc.  He developed and taught his first online course in 1994 and has been teaching online courses every semester since that first course. He is currently the Executive Director of Academic Innovation and Leadership in which he oversees the Department of Distance & Digital Learning and is also the Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at Dixie State University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Leading and Managing e-Learning

  • Book Subtitle: What the e-Learning Leader Needs to Know

  • Editors: Anthony A. Piña, Victoria L. Lowell, Bruce R. Harris

  • Series Title: Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61780-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61779-4Published: 30 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87161-5Published: 28 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61780-0Published: 20 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2625-0004

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-0012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 399

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction

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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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