Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education
ResearchID
Michael Simonson 0000-0003-3478-7879
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780132487313
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Edition
5
Description
Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education, Fifth Edition, provides its readers with the most comprehensive coverage on the market today of information about distance education in the 21st century. Primarily written for pre-service teachers, corporate trainers, and staff development programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. Readers will be better equipped with the knowledge and ability to select appropriate strategies for teaching the distant learner and how to implement this new knowledge in a distance learning program, so important to today's educational culture. Five over-arching themes support the text: 1) defining distance education, 2) the importance of research development, 3) distance learning is a viable and increasingly important alternative for teaching and learning, 4) equivalency theory, and 5) the book should be comprehensive–which means it should cover as much as is possible of the various ways instruction is made available to distant learners. Significantly revised and updated, the fifth edition now includes these noteworthy new features and more: chapter goals and objectives, chapter discussion questions, a look at best practice issues, new strategies and techniques, over thirty-percent new resources and references, and a stronger emphasis on how to design, deliver, and evaluate online instruction.
Publisher
Allyn & Bacon
City
Boston, MA
Disciplines
Education
NSUWorks Citation
Simonson, Michael R., "Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education" (2012). Faculty Books and Book Chapters. 18.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_facbooks/18