With the growing demand for distance education, and with more universities and colleges turning to distance education to keep abreast of the global need for more flexible education, Warnborough College is often asked how it manages delivery of distance courses. We put decades of experience and expertise in distance education into our new course, Delivering Distance Education. Some of the topics covered are: paper-based correspondence courses, online training, video courses, telephone conferencing, and e-learning.
COURSE STRUCTURE
- Scope and Nature of Distance Education: how it is different
- Getting the student started
- Supporting Students
- Real Time Support
- Managing Resources
- Assessment
- Student Administration
- Communication Skills
- Supporting Graduates
COURSE AIMS
- Identify differences between various modes of distance education and other forms of education.
- Determine appropriate methods for communicating with, and motivating action from, new distance education students.
- Provide effective support services to students undertaking distance education studies.
- Explain the ways that teachers and students can work together by using effective listening skills, problem solving techniques, empathy and other interactive strategies to maintain effective and meaningful relationships in the learning process.
- Manage physical and human resources within a distance education program to achieve appropriate benefit for cost expended.
- Conduct effective assessment of distance education students.
- Conduct effective administration of distance education students.
- Improve students? and teachers? ability to communicate effectively in a distance education environment.
- Provide support for graduates upon or following completion of a distance education course.
