- Title
- The lived experience of online education: insights from construction management
- Creator
- Sher, Willy; Williams, Anthony; Northcote, Maria
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Vol. 15, Issue 2, p. 49-62
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v15i2.4398
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Academics in higher education institutions often experience the conflicting demands of teaching, research and administration. With the growth of online education these staff are frequently required to design, develop, teach, facilitate and, in some cases, administer online courses. Cumulatively these additional tasks challenge academics, not only in terms of the personal professional development but also in accommodating the range of tasks expected of them. This paper reports the findings of a study which investigated the lived experience of construction management academics teaching at universities in Australia. The study adopted a lived experience research approach that enabled the lives of construction management academics to be investigated through the collection of a mixture of qualitative and quantitative data. The study provides empirical evidence of a range of challenges facing those delivering online courses. Recommendations for online teachers and online course designers emerged from this study with application to both faculty-based and institution-wide practices. The findings are relevant to those in the higher education sector who are involved in online teaching, course design for online delivery and professional development related to online initiatives.
- Subject
- construction mangement; online education; professional learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339964
- Identifier
- uon:28376
- Identifier
- ISSN:1835-6354
- Rights
- © 2015 Willy Sher, Anthony Williams and Maria Northcote. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
- Language
- eng
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