The Disruptive Power of Online Education

Andreas Altmann is the founding Director of MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria. His research focuses on university regulation, governance and management – including the competitive environment – and market behaviour in the higher education and research sector.Bernd Ebersberger is a Professor of Management and Economics of Innovation with the MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria. His research focuses on analysing innovation systems and the higher education system, the evaluation of innovation policy, quantitative industrial economics, and the economics of technical change and innovation. Claudia Mössenlechner has been active in the field of teaching and higher education for some 20 years, focusing on English as a second language, communication skills, intercultural training and leadership. She has extensive experience as an examiner and accreditor (European Higher Education Space) and has coordinated ‘quality in teaching’ approaches at MCI, Austria. Desiree Wieser is a Research & Teaching Assistant and PhD student at the MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria. Her main research area and publication activity focuses on higher education management, in particular on online education and the implementation of online education in higher education institutions.

Introduction. The Disruptive Power of Online Education: Challenges,
Opportunities, Responses; Andreas Altmann, Bernd Ebersberger, Claudia Mössenlechner and Desiree WieserPart I –
Online Programs and Program Design
Chapter 1. Scaling Online Learning: The Case
for a Program Level Approach; Regina Obexer
Chapter 2. Logic
Leads LEARNing: MOOCs in the Middle East; Yusuf Sidani
Chapter 3, The Power
of Technology in Customized Executive Education; Lynette Ryals, Ruth Bender and Toby Thompson
Chapter 4. Internationalization
of Online Learning: A Double Degree Model; Charles Krusekopf
Part II – Changing
Classroom Dynamics in the Digital Teaching Space
Chapter 5. Engagement in Online Learning:
It’s not all About Faculty!; Kathy Bishop, Catherine Etmanski and M. Beth Page
Chapter 6. Social Collaborative Learning
Environments: A Means to Reconceptualize Leadership Education for tomorrow’s
Leaders and Universities?; Anja P. Schmitz and Jan Foelsing
Chapter 7. Online, not Distance Education:
The Merits of Collaborative Learning in Online Education; Desiree Wieser and Jürgen-Matthias Seeler
Chapter 8. Disrupting Higher Education in
Alaska: Introducing the Native Teacher Certification Pathway Program; Paul
Berg, Kathryn Cruz, Tom Duening and Susan Schoenberg
Chapter 9. Academic Rigor and Video
Technology in Online Learning and Teaching: A Case Study on Digital
Storytelling in Masters-Level Assignment; Eva Malisius
Chapter 10. Game-Based Learning as Education
Method in the Digital Age; Ronald Deckert, Felix Heymann and Maren Metz