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EDTEC 550 Introduction to Distance Education will introduce you to primary concepts, learning management systems, and instructional strategies for distance education, eLearning and online training. Furthermore, the course will present an overview of the application of these practices in business, education and government.
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This course will prepare you to implement instructional and learning design strategies, and technologies for eLearning, distance education and online training. You will be involved in the
A systems approach to management of distance education, eLearning and online training and performance support systems is demonstrated. Students will simulate the implementation of the systems approach in their respective organizations. |
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This course will enable you to
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The textbook for this course is: Readings for this course are assigned from distance-educator.com a site that was originally established by the course instructor to provide resources for students in the EDTEC department about distance education. Since then it has grown to a major international resource for thousands of subscribers in the US and around the world. Distance-Educator.com also offers a free subscription to its Newsletter. The field is changing literally every day. There is a tremendous amount of new information about distance education published by a variety of sources. The course instructor collects published information from a variety of sources and presents it in the Weekly News Digest. To take full advantage of this course, you should subscribe to the Newsletter. | |||||||||||||||
In order to acknowledge achievements and monitor student progress, the Department needs a realistic and meaningful system for grading performance. The University and the professional community expect the Department to maintain standards that reflect its reputation as one of the foremost programs of its type in the country.
In general, professors in the department award "A" grades to acknowledge achievements that go beyond specified course requirements and criteria. By its very nature, this type of performance cannot always be spelled out clearly in advance. A's are reserved for special efforts that exceed expectations, that demonstrate exceptional creativity, boldness, commitment, involvement, ingenuity, or elegance.
A- = 90-92 B+ = 87-89 B = 83-86 B- = 80-82 C+ = 77-79 C = 73-76 C - = 70-72 Incomplete Policy- Given the real time nature of the many activities of this course receiving an incomplete grade is not a realistic option.
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Email to instructor Every time you send an email you must complete the subject line using the following naming technique. EDTEC 550: For example: EDTEC 550: Ritchie Review, and critique of an online course. Following this technique will ensure that your message will be sorted correctly, and read by the instructor promptly. If you had to attach a file to the email always use the naming technique of: YourLastName_550_ProjectTitle For example: Ritchie_550_ResearchPaper It is important that you identify all correspondences with faculty with your last name. |
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