Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education

by Michael Simonson

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include anymedia, website access codes, or print supplements that may comepackaged with the bound book.Teaching and Learning at a Distance:Foundations of Distance Education, 5th Edition, was awarded the 2011 Association for Educational Communicationsand Technology: Division of Distance Learning DistanceEducation Book Award !Teaching and Learning at a Distance:Foundations of Distance Education, Fifth Edition, provides itsreaders with the most comprehensive coverage on the market today ofinformation about distance education in the 21st century. Primarilywritten for pre-service teachers, corporate trainers, and staffdevelopment programs that discuss teaching distant learners ormanaging distance education systems. Readers will be betterequipped with the knowledge and ability to select appropriatestrategies for teaching the distant learner and how to implementthis new knowledge in a distance learning program, so important totoday's educational culture.Five over-arching themes support the text:1) defining distance education, 2) the importance of researchdevelopment, 3) distance learning is a viable and increasinglyimportant alternative for teaching and learning, 4) equivalencytheory, and 5) the book should be comprehensive–which meansit should cover as much as is possible of the various waysinstruction is made available to distant learners.Significantly revised and updated, the fifthedition now includes these noteworthy new features and more:chapter goals and objectives, chapter discussion questions, a lookat best practice issues, new strategies and techniques, overthirty-percent new resources and references, and a strongeremphasis on how to design, deliver, and evaluate onlineinstruction.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, School, Textbooks

408 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 16, 1999

Reviews

[Holly Ceci · Rating 2 out of 5]

More arid than the Mohave Desert, it does contain some useful information.

[Jade Geary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for reference and when designing an online course. Goes in to very in depth history and is very easy to read.

[Dannette · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hard to rate a text book. I liked the course...

[Lyna M. Perez]

Even for a textbook, it was dry and boring. However, there was some good quality information in there. There was too much information on the history of learning at a distance. The most useful information in the book was the second part. Personally, I could have done without the majority of the 1st half.

[Brittnee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides an in-depth look at distance education; especially for prospective distance education instructors and course designers.