Learning at the Speed of Light: How Online Education Got to Now

Learning at the Speed of Light is a collection of stories, articles, and interviews by and with...
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Author: John Ebersole
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Learning at the Speed of Light: How Online Education Got to Now by Ebersole, John

Learning at the Speed of Light: How Online Education Got to Now

Dhs. 158.22

Learning at the Speed of Light: How Online Education Got to Now

Dhs. 158.22
Author: John Ebersole
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Learning at the Speed of Light is a collection of stories, articles, and interviews by and with pioneers and visionaries across the United States who shared a belief in greater access to higher education.

This belief that education was a right, not a privilege, put them on a path to create what is known as online learning. This book brings together the early ideas that guided their thinking, and shows how funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Asynchronous Learning Networks initiative (guided by Dr. Frank Mayadas) spurred experimentation and created a new community of innovators, the Sloan Consortium (now the Online Learning Consortium). It also describes the development of early influential technology, and shares a behind-the-scenes look at the uncommon persistence of those who imagined and built the systems that continue to bring us closer to fulfilling the democratic mission of education for all.



Author: John Ebersole
Publisher: Hudson Whitman/ Excelsior College Press
Published: 11/15/2017
Pages: 438
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780989845120

About the Author
Ebersole, John: - John Ebersole, LPD, (1944-2016), served as president of Excelsior College in Albany, New York, from 2006 to 2016. His career in adult, online, and continuing education spanned more than twenty-five years. In 2015, Ebersole was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. He was the author (with William Patrick) of Courageous Learning: Finding a New Path through Higher Education, which was made into a documentary film of the same name.Patrick, William: - William Patrick is a writer whose works have been published or produced in nonfiction, poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and drama. He is a faculty member and co-director of Fairfield University's MFA Program in Writing, as well as founder and director of the New York State Summer Young Writers Institute, which will celebrate its 20th year in 2018.

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