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Higher Education and Postindustrial Society: New Ideas About Teaching, Learning, and Technology

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Online learning offers the opportunity to examine and rethink the teaching and learning enterprise in education broadly. Online learning can be conceived of as the new distance education, where issues such as interaction and dialogue are introduced back into the distance education model. However, regardless of education delivery mode—face-to-face, online, distance, or some combination through blended learning—teaching (and learning) is changing. Online learning, whether synchronous or asynchronous, offers a range of pedagogical practices previously unavailable in both distance and face-to-face higher education.

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  1. Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB, Canada, T9S 3A3

    Martha Cleveland-Innes Ph.D

  2. The Teaching & Learning Centre, The University of Calgary, Biological Sciences Bldg, Room 539B, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4

    D. Randy Garrison Ed.D

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  1. Professor, Educational Tech., Walden University, 155 Fifth Ave S, Minneapolis, 55401, Minnesota, USA

    Leslie Moller

  2. , Assoc. Dean, Online Develop. & USG eCore, University of West Georgia, Maple St. 1601, Carrollton, 30118, Georgia, USA

    Jason B. Huett

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Cleveland-Innes, M., Garrison, D.R. (2012). Higher Education and Postindustrial Society: New Ideas About Teaching, Learning, and Technology. In: Moller, L., Huett, J. (eds) The Next Generation of Distance Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1785-9_15

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