Online Education 2.0: Evolving, Adapting, and Reinventing Online Technical Education [Book Review]

In "Online Education 2.0: Evolving, Adapting, and Reinventing Online Technical Education," editors Keith Grant-Davie and Kelli Cargile Cook investigated how online pedagogy and learning have changed and how have faculty, students, and programs evolved over the last ten years. The book reviewer feels this is an interesting collection of articles that addresses fiscal, technological, and theoretical questions to help audiences who are addressing a virtual landscape in which online education is expanding to include more schools, levels of education, and a more diverse population of students. It is a helpful text for a wide-variety of audiences - administrators, scholars, and online instructors - to help them understand where online instruction has been, and where it is headed. As one who advocated early for developing quality online education as an alternative to face-to-face instruction, the reviewer suggests that one read the text to garner new insights into training, mentoring, and practice, regardless of whether you are a seasoned online educator, a novice, or somewhere in between. Each of us has lessons to teach as well as to learn, and this text will help guide your understanding of how to navigate the virtual landscape.