[AISWorld] Call for Papers: IJEP Special Issue about Politics of On-line Education

[Kristina Setzekorn]

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Kristina Setzekorn, PhD.
Graduate IT Academic Department Chair
School of Business and Information Technology
Kaplan University
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*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, School
of Business and Information Technology, Kaplan University



*SUBMISSION DUE DATE: * February 1, 2016

*PUBLICATION: *International Journal of E-Politics



*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.



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 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’ education 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?



*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 Setzekorn ksetzekorn at kaplan.edu, School of Business and
Information Technology, Kaplan University



*Full papers to be submitted electronically to: *ksetzekorn at kaplan.edu or
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.



*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),