Preface - Opportunities and challenges for a brave new education world -- Part I: Innovations and advances in online education -- Online education by design: Using evidence and course analytics to achieve best online teaching and learning practice -- Am I just another Number? Using online education innovations to Personalise and improve the student experience in online learning -- Enhancing the online student experience through creating learning communities - The benefits of chatbots in higher education -- Enhancing the online education experience using virtual reality -- Learning design meets service design for innovation in online learning at scale -- An online education toolbox -- Developing and maintaining active learning resources for online learning and teaching -- From virtual to reality: A practical guide to creating educational virtual reality content -- An online research portal – An integrated and transferable fully online research system -- Part II: Student-centred online education -- Back to the education future - Evidence-based student-centred approaches to online curriculum design and delivery -- “Same Same or Different?” predictors of student success in online courses -- Transcending “Distance” in distance education -- eRage - Recognising and optimally responding to a growing educational challenge -- The authentic online teacher - Practical insights from Rogers’ Person-centred approach -- Accessibility and inclusivity in online teaching -- Creatively flexible, technology fluent - Developing an optimal online -- Ready or not, here I come - Preparing online students for the real working world.

This book is the first comprehensive and integrated guide to online education. It systematically presents all aspects of the emerging “big picture” of online education, providing a broad range of information and insights from online experts, learners, teachers, developers and researchers. The book introduces readers to online education and reveals its potential for bringing about a paradigm shift in education. It describes avenues for increasing the value of the online education medium and examines techniques for improving the online student experience. It also offers a wealth of real-world examples and experiences and shares recommendations on how to improve them, provided by students, teachers, developers, and researchers. Accordingly, the book equips readers – including online learners, teachers, researchers, developers, and administrators – to optimally participate in and contribute to current and future online education advances.