Distance Learning
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Distance Learning

Volume 20 #4

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 1 Jan |Learn more

Distance Learning

Volume 20 #4

About this book

Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e-learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages, using telecommunications technologies of all types. Stories are written by practitioners for practitioners with the intent of providing usable information and ideas. Articles are accepted from authors--new and experienced--with interesting and important information about the effective practice of distance teaching and learning.Distance Learning is published quarterly. Each issue includes eight to ten articles and three to four columns, including the highly regarded "And Finally..." column covering recent important issues in the field and written by Distance Learning editor, Michael Simonson.This special edition of Distance Learning Magazine contains selected "And Finally..." columns from previously published issues.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Part 1
  5. Designing the “Perfect” Online Program
  6. Distance Education
  7. Doing It Wrong—Who Says?
  8. Distance Education as a Disruptive Technology
  9. Let’s Go Deeply Digital?
  10. Ethics
  11. Crisis Planning
  12. It’ll Never Happen …
  13. Evaluation— Let’s Try to AEIOU
  14. Uber, Taxis, and Distance Education
  15. Part 2
  16. Systems and Instructional Design
  17. How Much Distance Education Is Too Much Distance Education?
  18. If It Is Intellectual, Can It Be Property?
  19. Online Courses Have Three Critical Components (and Learning Management Systems Are Not One of Them)
  20. A Baker’s Dozen
  21. Seven Critical Elements
  22. Assumptions and Distance Education
  23. Regular and Substantive
  24. Engagement
  25. Flipping, Single Concepts, and Video
  26. Retention
  27. Part 3
  28. Yes, It Is Virtual!
  29. e-Books, Online Books, and Real Books
  30. Open Access
  31. Social Media and Online Learning
  32. Blending In
  33. Telepresence—New or ?
  34. Interactive Instructional Videos
  35. Back Cover