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design is the first of the four stages of teaching distance
learners. The work in this stage should take into account
the other three stages: course delivery, instruction, and
learner support.
In
designing a course, the following questions should be
considered:
Education
managers will need to decide whether a course will be
designed by a specialist course
team (and taught by specialist instructors) or designed
by the person who will teach it.
More
resources:
Taplin,
M. 2002. Asian Women's Experiences
in Distance education: A Five-country Study.
Namin
Shin and Juhu Kim 1999. An
exploration of learner progress and drop-out in Korea
National Open University. Distance Education. Vol.
20, No. 1
Peter
J. Smith and Swee Noi Smith 1999. Differences
between Chinese and Australian students: some implications
for distance educators. Distance Education.
Vol. 20, No. 1
Tam,
M., Wedd, S. and McKerchar, M. 1997. Development
and evaluation of a computer-based learning pilot project
for the teaching of holistic accounting concepts.
Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 13(1), 54-67.
Kember,
D.; Lai, T.; Murphy, D.; Siaw. I.; Wong, J. & Yuen,
K.S. 1990. Naturalistic
Evaluation of Distance Learning Courses, Journal of Distance
Education, V (1), 38-52
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