Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4324] Book chapter
From: Moallem, Mahnaz (moallemm@uncw.edu)
Date: Wed 29 Jan 2003 - 03:25:22 MET
Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4324] Book chapter Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:25:22 -0500 From: "Moallem, Mahnaz" <moallemm@uncw.edu>
An Invitation to
Contribute a chapter to a book on
Assessing Online Teaching and Learning
Dr. Comeaux is looking for additional authors to contribute to a collection of essays about assessing online teaching and learning.
looking for contributors who want to address the challenges and benefits of assessing online teaching and learning either from a formative or summative perspective or both. If interested, send a detailed abstract proposal for a chapter contribution of your experiences and knowledge of assessing online teaching and/or learning. Rather than an extensive review of literature or a research study, the contributed chapters of this book should focus on descriptive and pragmatic examples of how to "do online assessment."
Send abstract proposal to email address (below) no later than April 10, 2003.
Frame and Direction of Book:
We know, from experience and from the research literature, that successful online teaching and learning involves computer-mediated communication processes in which students and teachers are actively and reciprocally engaged in the process of knowledge construction, creating and sharing meaning, theory-based applications and situational problem solving.
Thus, as educators we must critically assess the characteristics and the quality of these valued and known processes of online learning. In other words, we must develop assessment tools that will evaluate the processes of learning in which students are actively engaged in thinking reflectively and critically as well as problem-solving with others of like-minded knowledge and interest. In essence, we must focus on assessment processes as well as outcomes.
As in my previous volume (see <http://www.ankerpub.com/books/comeaux.html>, I will provide an introductory chapter which will frame the book and provide an overview of the issues. The nature of this topic requires a multi-disciplinary coverage; thus I will be including chapters from contributors who will represent a cross-section of disciplines in higher education. The target audience for this book will be faculty, graduate students, administrators, and scholars in higher education. Because of the multi-disciplinary and comprehensive approach to this book, it should prove valuable to a wide range of readers.
Contact: Patricia Comeaux, Professor
Department of Communication Studies
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW)
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-5933
(910) 962-3265
comeauxp@uncw.edu
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