BUILDING A GLOBAL CAMPUS: Evidence-Based Design, Teaching, and Leadership for the AI Era

Online education has moved from the margins of higher education to its mainstream — and the institutions winning in this new landscape are those that build it with intention, evidence, and disciplined leadership. Building the Global Campus is the definitive practitioner’s guide for educators, instructional designers, program leaders, and administrators who refuse to settle for online learning done merely when online learning done well is achievable.Written by an expert with more than two decades of designing, teaching, and leading online programs, this book delivers what no other current text does: a rigorous, research-grounded, and relentlessly practical framework spanning course architecture, assessment design, faculty development, student retention, technology governance, and strategic leadership — all addressed honestly within the artificial intelligence environment reshaping higher education right now.Generative AI is not treated as a future concern or an edge case. It is woven throughout every chapter as the defining challenge and opportunity it already is — disrupting assessment practices, transforming instructional quality standards, and demanding leaders capable of navigating its implications with clarity and confidence.Building the Global Campus is not a book about surviving the digital transformation of higher education. It is a blueprint for leading it. Read more