About this Book

 The ground of higher
education is shifting, but learning ecosystems around the world have much more
space than MOOCs and trendy online platforms can fill, and Loewen shows how
professors have an indisputable pedagogical edge that gives them a crucial role
to play in higher education. By adopting the collaborative pedagogical process
in this book, professors can create effective social learning experiences that
connect students to peers and professional colleagues in real-time. 

Loewen moves beyond surface questions about technology in
the classroom to a problem best addressed by educators in bricks-and-mortar
institutions: if students are social learners, how do we teach in a way that
promotes actual dialogue for learning? Designing learning experiences that
develop intercultural competencies puts the test to students’ social
inclinations, and engagement with course material increases when it’s used to
dig deeper into the specificities of their identity and social location.
Loewen’s approach to inter-institutional collaborative teaching will be
explored with examples and working templates for collaborative design of
effective social learning experiences. This is done by collaborative dialogue
with G. Brooke Lester and Christopher Duncanson-Hales. As a group, Loewen,
Lester, and Duncanson-Hales create a text that extends pedagogical innovation
in inspiring but practical ways.