Distance Education: A Systems View of Online Learning

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Cengage Learning, Apr 22, 2011 - Education - 384 pages
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The most comprehensive and authoritative text on the subject, DISTANCE EDUCATION, Third Edition, retains its emphasis on a systems approach to the organization and selection of material. The text is researched-based and grounded in solid principles of teaching and learning. The authors apply their broad experience and expertise as they explain how to design and teach courses online--including the latest technologies employed, characteristics of learners, organizational structures, and current policy and global perspectives.
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Contents

Basic Concepts
1
The Historical Context
23
The Scope of Distance Education
45
Technologies and Media
72
Course Design and Development
97
Teaching and the Roles of the Instructor
126
The Distance Education Student
150
Management Administration and Policy
175
Research and Studies of Effectiveness
221
The Global Span of Distance Education
242
Distance Education Is about Change
273
Sources of Further Information
293
Glossary
305
References
315
AuthorTitle Index
335
Subject Index
347

The Theory and Scholarship of Distance Education
205

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