[ecrea] CFP: Politics of On-line Education – International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Special Issue on the Politics of On-line Education – International
Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)*

*Special issue editor: *Kristina Setzekorn - (ksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu)
<mailto:(ksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu)>, School of Business and Information
Technology, Kaplan University

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*SUBMISSION DUE DATE: *February 1, 2016

*PUBLICATION: *International Journal of E-Politics**

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*OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE:*

This special issue invites submissions related to the Politics of
On-line Education. Terms are broadly defined for this special issue.
“Politics” references issues related to influence and power. “Online
education” generally refers to any web-based learning, including credit
and non-credit classes, offered by public and private, for profit and
non-profit institutions. Thus, appropriate articles may reference power
and influence related to wholly online or hybrid offerings, be they free
(e.g., MOOCs), or not free.

Regardless of the specific offering, on-line education is a disruptive
technology (Christensen, 1997; Evans & Wurster, 2000) that makes
education widely accessible (Smith, 2014).This impacts the Higher
Education industry, global economies and society in general.Higher
Education is integral to productivity and innovation, at individual and
collective levels.Thus, education’s shift away from scarcity affects the
differential earnings and influence of all concerned.Online education
impacts, and is impacted by, such shifting power structures, as well as
globalization.

This special issue’s objective is to explore online education’s impact
on, and its political implications at, various levels, including
individual, regulatory, social and cultural. These implications are on
and between individuals, within and between organizations, and within
and between governments, and combinations of these.

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We are interested in topics that include (but are not limited to) the
following:

·Accreditation, Regulation, Federal Financial Aid

·Impact on organizational and industry structure within the Higher
Education industry

·Strategic implications/ opportunities/ challenges/ prescriptions for
traditional and online, public and private Higher Education organizations

·Shifting higher education business models’ impacts (e.g., economic,
social, psychological) on administrator, faculty, staff and student
roles and power, e.g., implications of adjunctification’s un-bundling of
work (course design, seminars, grading, mentoring, advising, governance,
research, service, etc.).

·Implications from shifting cross-subsidies associated with new models
(e.g., large lower-level introduction courses subsidize small
upper-level specialized courses –what happens when the introductory
courses are waived in competency-based scenarios or MOOCs are accepted
for credit?).

·Power issues associated with shifting education models, e.g.,
competency based degrees, MOOCs, hybrid programs, etc. Who wins, who
loses? What potential strategies exist for students and faculty, and
entrant and incumbent institutions?

·“The next billion”—i.e., online education’s potential to efficiently
educate financially- and/or technologically-challenged students, both in
developed and developing regions.To what extent is this happening? What
are the political implications of this flattening of opportunity?What
policies/ strategies can enhance or diminish this potential?

·Online education’s colonialization and resulting potential for cultural
homogenization.Transplanting developed regions’ educational models and
resources to other cultures may cause the latter (colonialized) to
resemble the former (colonial).What are the trade-offs?What strategies
are used to resist this colonialization and homogenization?

·Gender issues—Are women more highly represented as online students,
faculty and administrators? Why or why not?What are the political and
performance implications?

·Diversity/ demographic issues – Are people of color more (or less?)
represented as online students, faculty and administrators?Why or why
not? Are there empirical differences in their success in either
venue?Are folks of different ages or socioeconomic levels more or less
highly represented in online venues, why, and what factors might explain
this differential representation and success?

·Religious issues associated with online learning, possibly combined
with globalization, racial and gender aspects.

·Virtual education workers’ political issues in dealing with each other,
with supervisors and subordinates.What happens when information is
un-bundled from people and places, and flows more freely?Who wins and
who loses?What political games inhibit and lubricate these information
flows?

·Politics of Open Source materials –Who owns, who uses, who benefits,
who loses, who controls, …these resources?

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*SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: *

Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with the politics of
online education broadly defined are invited to submit papers for this
themed issue. All submissions are due by*/February 1, 2016./*

*All queries to Special Issue Editor*

Kristina (Setzekornksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu) <mailto:(ksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu)>,
School of Business and Information Technology, Kaplan University

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*Full papers to be submitted electronically to: *(ksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu)
<mailto:(ksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu)>or (ksetzekorn /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(ksetzekorn /at/ gmail.com)>.

*Founder: *

Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business Administration, Wayne State
University, Detroit, USA

*Editor-in-Chief:*

Yasmin Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary,
University of London.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

*PUBLISHER:
*The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global
(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science
Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information
Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the
publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com <http://www.igi-global.com>.

*REFERENCES:*

Christensen, Clayton M. (1997) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New
Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, MA: Harvard Business
School Press.

Evans, P., & Wurster, T. S. (2000). /Blown to bits: How the new
economics of information transforms strategy/. Harvard Business Press

Smith, P. (2014), The coming era of personalized learning paths.
/Educause review/, 49(6),





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