Distance Learning: Principles for Effective Design, Delivery, and Evaluation

The rapidly-increasing interest in distance learning presents new opportunities for educational institutions, as well as special demands for faculty and administrators. The authors provide this text as a guide for instructors and administrators with limited experience in this area. Coverage includes rethinking course design, selecting appropriate methods of delivery, creating strategies to promote active learning, providing support services to distance students equivalent to those available to students on campus, maintaining ongoing contact with students, and assessing learning outcomes.

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