The Distributed Classroom (Learning in Large-Scale Environments)

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A vision of the future of education in which the classroom experience is distributed across space and time without compromising learning. What if there were a model for learning in which the classroom experience was distributed across space and time\-\-and students could still have the benefits of the traditional classroom, even if they can\x27t be present physically or learn synchronously? In this book, two experts in online learning envision a future in which education from kindergarten through graduate school need not be tethered to a single physical classroom. The distributed classroom would neither sacrifice students\x27 social learning experience nor require massive development resources. It goes beyond hybrid learning, so ubiquitous during the COVID\-19 pandemic, and MOOCs, so trendy a few years ago, to reimagine the classroom itself. David Joyner and Charles Isbell, both of Georgia Tech, explain how recent developments, including distance learning and learning management systems, have paved the way for the distributed classroom. They propose that we dispense with the dichotomy between online and traditional education, and the assumption that online learning is necessarily inferior. They describe the distributed classroom\x27s various delivery modes for in\-person students, remote synchronous students, and remote asynchronous students; the goal would be a symmetry of experiences, with both students and teachers able to move from one mode to another. With The Distributed Classroom, Joyner and Isbell offer an optimistic, learner\-centric view of the future of education, in which every person on earth is turned into a potential learner as barriers of cost, geography, and synchronicity disappear. Contents Series Foreword Preface on COVID-19 I: WHERE WE ARE NOW 1: The Classic Dichotomy The Distributed Classroom Aren’t These Just Hybrid Classrooms? Aren’t These Just MOOCs? Toward a Spectrum Structure of this Book Who This Book Is For What This Book Is Not 2: Place and Time The Time/Space Matrix Expanding the Matrix 3: Progress So Far Traditional Distance Learning Learning Management Systems Shareable Classes Distributed Co-Location Emergency Remote Classrooms The Distributed Model II: WHAT WE DO NEXT 4: The Distributed Classroom Matrix The Expanded Time/Space Matrix Distributed Classroom Scenarios Asynchronous Co-Locatedness? 5: Symmetry A Fully Distributed Classroom Symmetry in the Distributed Classroom Matrix The Distributed Church 6: Practical Considerations Technology Staff Applicability III: THE PLACES WE’LL GO 7: From Stopgap to Snowball Post–COVID-19 Place Barriers Cost Barriers Time Barriers 8: The Distributed Campus The Remote Campus The Online Campus The Connected Campus 9: Fears, Risks, and Other Scary Words Teacher Employment The Mega-University Centralization, Standardization, and Imperialism Reich’s Intractable Dilemmas 10: Lifelong Learning for All Goals Methods Outcomes Acknowledgments Notes Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Index