Online Education: Instructor’s Perspective


Online Education: Instructor’s Perspective
Published in:	Megaprojects: Building Infrastructure by Fostering Engineering Collaboration, Efficient and Effective Integration and Innovative Planning: Proceedings of the 10th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference:	July 23-25, 2012
Location of Conference:	Panama City, Panama
Authors:	Andrzej Gapinski
Refereed Paper:	#51

Abstract
Higher learning institutions are adopting online education more and more as they try to meet the expectations of the digital era. Learning institutions are driven externally and internally to be more agile in academic offerings with regard to delivery. The paper investigates the past and current status of online education offered by higher learning institutions in the USA. In addition, the paper offers some experiences of the author in teaching online classes.