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The Lodestar Standard is a working framework for defining, measuring, and improving educational quality once capable AI sits inside every online course. It argues that the twenty-year-old model of inspecting a fixed course against a checklist has quietly stopped working, because the course now bends to each learner and a polished assignment no longer proves anyone learned anything. In its place the book offers a single organizing question, the Lodestar Test, which asks what a learner can still do when the tools that helped them are taken away, and seven standards that put that question to work across capability, integrity, partnership with AI, the irreplaceable human core, personalization, governance, and continuous review. Written for the reviewers, instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders who already care about online learning quality, it pairs a clear argument with a complete field kit: a self-assessment instrument, a reviewer’s handbook, a worked example, an executive brief, a ninety-day adoption plan, and discussion questions for faculty. Readers will leave able to judge whether their own programs produce graduates who genuinely own what their credentials claim, and with a concrete, low-cost practice for closing the gap, one that favors strong mentorship and honest evidence over deep pockets.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Lodestar Standard is a working framework for defining, measuring, and improving educational quality once capable AI sits inside every online course. It argues that the twenty-year-old model of inspecting a fixed course against a checklist has quietly stopped working, because the course now bends to each learner and a polished assignment no longer proves anyone learned anything. In its place the book offers a single organizing question, the Lodestar Test, which asks what a learner can still do when the tools that helped them are taken away, and seven standards that put that question to work across capability, integrity, partnership with AI, the irreplaceable human core, personalization, governance, and continuous review. Written for the reviewers, instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders who already care about online learning quality, it pairs a clear argument with a complete field kit: a self-assessment instrument, a reviewer's handbook, a worked example, an executive brief, a ninety-day adoption plan, and discussion questions for faculty. Readers will leave able to judge whether their own programs produce graduates who genuinely own what their credentials claim, and with a concrete, low-cost practice for closing the gap, one that favors strong mentorship and honest evidence over deep pockets. Seller Inventory # 9798184078946