Despite the considerable, growing interest in online education, most studies have focused only on the students perspective. Merely a handful of studies have attempted to address the teachers perspectives and little has been published on the online teaching experience itself.
Expectations and Demands in Online Teaching: Practical Experiences offers a better understanding of how teachers experience the online environment by exploring various dimensions of online teaching, including class preparation, process effectiveness and quality, and technology utilization. The book assists educational institution administrators supporting online education improve their understanding of how teachers experience online teaching, and of the issues these teachers face in their teaching.
About the Author
Sorin Gudea lives in the Los Angeles area. An alumni from Pepperdine University (MBA 1998) and from Claremont Graduate University (MSMIS 2004, PhD 2005), Sorin has worked in Information Systems for almost twenty years. At his current position, with a large organization, he is involved with Information Technology projects.
At times, Sorin teaches technology courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs at University of Phoenix, where he is a practitioner faculty in the College of Information Systems and Technology in the University of Phoenixs Southern California Campus.
Sorins research interests gravitate around online education and training, information systems security economics, and knowledge management and organizational learning. He is an avid Information Systems researcher, and has presented several papers at some of the major conferences in the field. Some of his work was published in the International Journal of Electronic Business, the Journal of the AHIMA and in the Perspectives of the AHIMA. |
