1. Distance Education: Higher Education And The Literature
Michael Simonson, Ph.D.
Program Professor
Instructional Technology and Distance Education
Fischler School of Education
Nova Southeastern University
Florida, USA
Change Our Thinking

4. Teacher as Skeumorph
Skeumorph

7. Staggering Growth of DE

8. What do we know?

9. Best Practices?

13. Teaching
Face to Face
Instruction
Distance Delivered
Instruction 2

14. Equivalency Theory of Distance Education
“Learners, distant and local, should be provided equivalent (v. equal) learning experiences in order for them to achieve similar learning outcomes” 10

15. Best Practices Logical and Intuitive Organization:Chunkning
Multimedia Use to Present Content
High Quality Production Standards
Content-Rich Design
Meaningful, Quick and Meaningful Interaction
Self Pacing Apparent
Continuous Evaluation and Revision

16. Rules of Thumb For a typical 3-credit course
> 90 to130 hours of student involvement
10 – 25 students/instructor
Clear organization ~ 45 topics, 15 modules, and 3 units
Build Communities >5 <10
Grade often and everything
<1 instructor posting to 4 student postings or >

18. What do we know?

21. Important Issues QRDE Theory Driven Case Studies Diffusion Processes
Generalizable
Data Supported but Applied DL
Practitioner Relevant
Clearly Relevant
Case-based
Interesting and Informative
Visual