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Driving Innovation With For-Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development) - Hardcover

 
9781799890980: Driving Innovation With For-Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1799890988 ISBN 13: 9781799890980
Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2022

Synopsis

The emergence of remote and for-profit universities has provided increased opportunities for adult learners to obtain higher education degrees in a technologically-dependent teaching-learning environment. During the pandemic, for-profit online learning institutions experienced increases in enrollment while face-to-face institutions experienced a decrease. Higher education accreditation bodies have legitimized distance learning virtual universities as sites for adult learners, especially part-time adult learners, and made distance education an accepted way to receive a higher education degree. Driving Innovation With For-Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions focuses on teaching and learning in distance learning remote universities. This book explores, describes, and questions the role of these institution in the higher education landscape. This publication examines the ideas, programs, student services, and curriculum innovations that created the space for the for-profit distance education university to become a competitive force in the higher education marketplace. Covering topics such as driving achievement, internships, and part-time faculty, this book is an essential resource for university leaders, administrators, faculty, student services leadership and staff, higher education historians and researchers, accreditors and regulators, and academicians.

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About the Author

David S. Stein, The Ohio State University, USA

Hilda R. Glazer, Capella University, USA

Constance Wanstreet, Franklin University, USA

From the Back Cover

The emergence of remote and for-profit universities has provided increased opportunities for adult learners to obtain higher education degrees in a technologically-dependent teaching-learning environment. During the pandemic, for-profit online learning institutions experienced increases in enrollment while face-to-face institutions experienced a decrease. Higher education accreditation bodies have legitimized distance learning virtual universities as sites for adult learners, especially part-time adult learners, and made distance education an accepted way to receive a higher education degree. Driving Innovation With For-Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions focuses on teaching and learning in distance learning remote universities. This book explores, describes, and questions the role of these institution in the higher education landscape. This publication examines the ideas, programs, student services, and curriculum innovations that created the space for the for-profit distance education university to become a competitive force in the higher education marketplace. Covering topics such as driving achievement, internships, and part-time faculty, this book is an essential resource for university leaders, administrators, faculty, student services leadership and staff, higher education historians and researchers, accreditors and regulators, and academicians.

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Publisher
Business Science Reference
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1799890988
ISBN 13 
9781799890980
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
344
Editor
Stein David, Glazer Hilda R., Wanstreet Constance