Disruptive Power of Online Education

Andreas Altmann is the founding Director of MCI Management CenterInnsbruck, Austria. His research focuses on university regulation, governanceand management – including the competitive environment – and market behaviourin 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 researchfocuses on analysing innovation systems and the higher education system, theevaluation of innovation policy, quantitative industrial economics, and theeconomics of technical change and innovation.Claudia Mössenlechner has been active in the field of teaching andhigher education for some 20 years, focusing on English as a second language,communication skills, intercultural training and leadership. She has extensiveexperience as an examiner and accreditor (European Higher Education Space) andhas coordinated ‘quality in teaching’ approaches at MCI, Austria.Desiree Wieser is a Research & Teaching Assistant and PhD student atthe MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria. Her main research area andpublication activity focuses on higher education management, in particular ononline education and the implementation of online education in higher educationinstitutions.

• Introduction. The Disruptive Power of Online Education: Challenges,Opportunities, Responses; Andreas Altmann, Bernd Ebersberger, Claudia Mössenlechner and Desiree WieserPart I –Online Programs and Program DesignChapter 1. Scaling Online Learning: The Casefor a Program Level Approach; Regina ObexerChapter 2. LogicLeads LEARNing: MOOCs in the Middle East; Yusuf SidaniChapter 3, The Powerof Technology in Customized Executive Education; Lynette Ryals, Ruth Bender and Toby ThompsonChapter 4. Internationalizationof Online Learning: A Double Degree Model; Charles KrusekopfPart II – ChangingClassroom Dynamics in the Digital Teaching SpaceChapter 5. Engagement in Online Learning:It’s not all About Faculty!; Kathy Bishop, Catherine Etmanski and M. Beth PageChapter 6. Social Collaborative LearningEnvironments: A Means to Reconceptualize Leadership Education for tomorrow’sLeaders and Universities?; Anja P. Schmitz and Jan FoelsingChapter 7. Online, not Distance Education:The Merits of Collaborative Learning in Online Education; Desiree Wieser and Jürgen-Matthias SeelerChapter 8. Disrupting Higher Education inAlaska: Introducing the Native Teacher Certification Pathway Program; PaulBerg, Kathryn Cruz, Tom Duening and Susan SchoenbergChapter 9. Academic Rigor and VideoTechnology in Online Learning and Teaching: A Case Study on DigitalStorytelling in Masters-Level Assignment; Eva MalisiusChapter 10. Game-Based Learning as EducationMethod in the Digital Age; Ronald Deckert, Felix Heymann and Maren Metz