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- Front Cover
- Special Issue: "And Finally" Columns
- Introduction to the Special Issue
- Michael Simonson
- Get Your Copy Today-Information Age Publishing
- Teacher as Skeuomorph. Teacher as What?
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCE
- Teachers are becoming designers, organizers, motivators, and assessors.
- And Finally .
- Online Instruction- The Seven Virtues
- Or, How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Presentation Sins
- Michael Simonson
- And Finally .
- Designing the "Perfect" Online Course
- Michael Simonson
- Course Structure
- Course Content
- Artifacts of Learning
- REFERENCE
- Get Your Copy Today-Information Age Publishing
- And Finally .
- Design
- The Fundamental Element
- Michael Simonson
- References
- Design is the fundamental element of effective instruction.
- And Finally .
- Designing the "Perfect" Online Program
- Michael Simonson
- 1. First, an academic technology/distance education plan is needed. This plan includes the following components:
- 2. Next, a process for diffusion and implementation of distance education is needed. This process includes these components:
- References
- And Finally .
- Rules of Thumb, or DeRoTs
- Michael Simonson
- Rules of thumb need to be validated by research.
- And Finally .
- Podcasting . or "Seeds Floated Down From the Sky"
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCES
- And Finally .
- Don't Tell Them
- The Top 10 Tips for Student Success in Online Courses
- Michael Simonson
- Most important-online courses require a great deal of self discipline.
- And Finally .
- Will You Be My Friend?
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCES
- 1 - learn about social networking
- 2 - design for social networks
- 3 - study social networks
- 4 - learn from and with social networks
- And Finally .
- Where Is as Important as Why, When, and What
- Michael Simonson
- 1. A modern computer with monitor
- 2. Software-MS Office at a minimum
- 3. A desk
- 4. A chair
- 5. Lighting-ceiling and desktop
- 6. A high speed internet connection-a cable modem, for example
- 7. A wireless router
- 8. Telephone with speaker and cordless handset
- 9. Electrical outlets with surge protectors
- 10. An all-in-one printer (copier, printer, fax, scanner)
- 11. Back-up drive
- 12. Uninterruptable power supply
- 13. File cabinet
- 14. Storage
- 15. Fire-proof safe
- 16. Paper shredder
- 17. USB webcam with built-in microphone
- 18. HDTV connected to cable
- 19. Supplies
- 20. Bookshelves
- Get Your Copy Today-Information Age Publishing
- And Finally .
- Distance Learning Leaders-Who Are They?
- Michael Simonson
- Get Your Copy Today-Information Age Publishing
- And Finally .
- Technology Plans and Distance Education
- Michael Simonson
- 1. Strengthen leadership
- 2. Consider innovative budgeting
- 3. Improve teacher training
- 4. Support e-learning and virtual schools
- 5. Encourage broadband access
- 6. Move toward digital content
- 7. Integrate data systems
- Every educational organization needs an instructional technology and distance education plan.
- And Finally .
- Accreditation and Quality in Distance Education
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCE
- And Finally .
- If it Is Intellectual, Can it Be Property?
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCE
- And Finally .
- It Costs How Much?
- Estimating the Costs to Design and Develop a Distance Delivered Course
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCES
- $34,000-$45,000 per course.
- Quarterly Review of Distance Education, Subscribe Today! www.infoagepub.com
- And Finally .
- MOOC Madness
- Michael Simonson
- "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
- -Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii, line 211, Shakespeare
- References
- MOOCs = excellent self study, but not education.
- And Finally .
- Apps
- The 3 Rs and the 3 Ps
- Michael Simonson
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- And Finally .
- Ethics and Distance Education
- Michael Simonson
- 1. knowledge of what is ethical and what is not
- 2. understanding of proper actions of students
- and
- 3. application of ethical behaviors to the teaching and learning process.
- 1. development of an institutional code of ethical behavior
- 2. explanation of student responsibilities related to the categories of unethical behavior, including:
- 3. establishment of a process of enforcement, including sanctions for violations of ethical behavior
- and
- 4. implementation of training and remediation systems for instructors and students.
- References
- And Finally .
- Britannica (Not Wikipedia)
- Michael Simonson
- REFERENCE
- And Finally .
- Educational Colonialism
- Michael Simonson
- References
- Localization of distance education-a topic worthy of study.
- And Finally .
- Hooray! Or, Here We Go Again!
- Michael Simonson
- References
- And Finally .
- Distance Education as a Disruptive Technology
- Michael Simonson
- References
- And Finally .
- E-Books
- The Future?
- Michael Simonson
- Reference
- And Finally .
- Books, Real and Otherwise
- Michael Simonson
- Reference
- And Finally .
- Finding Maturity?
- Michael Simonson
- And Finally .
- Back Cover
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