Online Education, Standardization, and Roles

Abstract

Key Terms in this Chapter

Facilitator: Someone who skillfully helps a group of people understand their common objectives and assists them to plan to achieve them without taking a particular position in the discussion.

Automation: The technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, reducing human intervention to a minimum.

Professional Mode: Professionals in the operating core (e.g. doctors, professors) rely on roles and skills learned from years of schooling and indoctrination to coordinate their work.

Role: The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person.

Standardization: The imposition of standards which, in turn, are fixed ways of doing things that are widely recognized.

Manufacturing Mode: Technocrats standardize procedures and outputs. Online: Connected by computer to one or more other computers or networks, as through a commercial electronic information service or the Internet.