Optimizing K-12 Education through Online and Blended Learning

✍ Scribed by Nathaniel Ostashewski (editor), Jennifer Howell (editor), Martha Cleveland-Innes (editor)

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The integration of information and communication technologies in education is unavoidable, as an increasing percentage of educators embrace modern technology, others are faced with the decision to reevaluate their own pedagogical practices or become obsolete. To meet the needs of students, one must first define what stipulates a successful K-12 student, the best practices of online classrooms, the warning signs for low-performing students, and how to engage web-based students. Optimizing K-12 Education through Online and Blended Learning addresses the models, support, cases, and delivery of K-12 online education. Seeking to further the conversation about the most effective ways to integrate ICT into the classroom, this publication presents theoretical frameworks to support educators and administrators. This book is an essential collection of research for teachers, administrators, students of education, IT professionals, developers, and policy makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
1. Online Coaching as Teacher Training: Using a Relationship of Inquiry Framework • Stefan Stenbom, Martha Cleveland-Innes, Stefan Hrastinski
2. Optimizing K-12 Education through Effective Educator Preparation: Lessons Learned from a Synchronous Online Pilot Study • Mary Kathryn McVey, Susan Poyo, Mary Lucille Smith
3. A Model for Teacher Training to Improve Students’ 21st Century Skills in Online and Blended Learning: An Approach from Film Education • Julia Breddermann, Juan-Francisco Martínez-Cerdá, Joan Torrent-Sellens
4. Current Trends and Perspectives in the K-12 Canadian Blended and Online Classroom • Constance Blomgren
5. Factors Influencing International Student Success in a K-12 Blended Learning Program • Annette Levesque, Doug Reid
6. The Psychological Domain: Enhancing Traditional Practice in K-12 Education • Adrian O’Connor, Niall Seery, Donal Canty
7. Introducing the Teaching and Learning Benefits of the WWW in Aboriginal Schools: Trials and Tribulations • Judith Rochecouste, Rhonda Oliver
8. An Inquiry-Based Approach to Blended and Online Learning in K-12 Education • Norman Vaughan
9. Teaching Strategies and Tactics in K-12 Blended Education: The Flipped Classroom Model • Anne Katz, Jackie Hee-Young Kim
10. iPad Usage and Appropriate Applications: K-12 Classroom with a 1-to-1 iPad Initiative • Julia Bennett, Fan-Yu Lin
11. Optimizing an Online Learning Course Using Automatic Curating in Sliding Mode • Vardan Mkrttchian, Danis Amirov, Lubov Belyanina
12. Authentic Assessment Construction in Online Education: The Case of the Open High School Program of the Philippines • Benjamina Paula G. Flor, Leandra Carolina G. Flor
13. Case Studies of Scaffolded On-Line Inquiry in Primary and Secondary Classrooms: Technology and Inquiry in a Science Context • Rachel Sheffield, Geoff Quinton
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index