How can faculty and administrators help ensure that students get a high-quality education through distance learning?
Everything ultimately comes back to the instructional design. We now know a great deal about the science of instruction and the characteristics of effective instruction. These characteristics are student motivation, content organization, student engagement, and useful feedback. While there is no single right way to teach, all really good instruction accounts for those characteristics in some way. The design has to be appropriate to the content, students, location, time available, and tools. Just capturing a bad instructor on tape and delivering his or her presentation to students over the Web may be distance learning, but it is hardly going to provide a high-quality education. However, neither is sitting in that same instructor’s classroom. Some people wrongly equate distance learning with little more than a book and a test. In fact, the lines between distance learning and on-campus instruction are blurring. At NOVA, we have more traditional classes that use Blackboard (our learning ma
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