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And Finally A Baker’S Dozen Ideas For Creating An Online Course, Michael Simonson
And Finally A Baker’S Dozen Ideas For Creating An Online Course, Michael Simonson
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Most likely, everyone reading this column in Distance Learning journal has been asked how to quickly develop an online course, or tasked to actually redesign a course for online delivery. For those who have taught and learned in the world of distance education this process is easy, straightforward, even if time-consuming. One issue for new online designers or instructors is that much of the process for converting a traditional course to an online one is not intuitive, and in some respects is counterintuitive. For example, the idea of chunking instruction into single concept building blocks is an example of …
And Finally... Blending In All The News That’S Fit To Print, Michael Simonson
And Finally... Blending In All The News That’S Fit To Print, Michael Simonson
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Even the New York Times agrees. In a recent Business section article about success in online courses, the Times wrote that “The instructional ingredients of success include … short videos of 6 minutes or less, interspersed with interactive drills and texts; online forums where students share problems and suggestions; and online mentoring and tutoring” (“Online Courses,” 2020). The Times got it right.
And Finally … What’S In A Name?, Michael Simonson
And Finally … What’S In A Name?, Michael Simonson
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Call me Ishmael” is the first line of the classic novel, Moby Dick. Most high school students do not realize the importance of Ishmael’s name when they start reading. However, if they wanted an A on the final essay they wrote about the novel, they should have mentioned how this first line of three words set the intellectual tone for Herman Melville’s masterpiece.