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TEACH
i
BEYOND
YOUR
REACH
An Instructor’s Guide to Developing and Running
Successful DISTANCE LEARNING Classes,
Workshops, Training Sessions and More
Robin Neidorf
Medford, New Jersey
ii
First Printing, 2006
Teach Beyond Your Reach: An Instructor’s Guide to Developing and Running
Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More
Copyright © 2006 by Robin Neidorf
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neidorf, Robin.
Teach beyond your reach : an instructor’s guide to developing and running
successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more /
Robin Neidorf.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-910965-73-0
1. Distance education. 2. Teacher-student relationships. I. Title.
LC5800.N45 2006
371.35--dc22
2006006263
Printed and bound in the United States of America
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Editor-in-Chief and Publisher: John B. Bryans
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Indexer: Sharon Hughes
Contents
Figures, Tables, and Worksheets
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix
Acknowledgments
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
Introduction: Those Who Can, Teach
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Becoming a Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Why Write This Book? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
My Experiences with Distance Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
But What Exactly
Is
Distance Learning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Who Should Read This Book? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Sidebar: Different Types of Readers: How to
Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
How This Book Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Content Overview: It’s All About Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Those Who Can, Teach … Beyond Their Reach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 1: New Tools of the Trade
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Least-Complex Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sidebar: A Quick View of Snail Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Sidebar: A Quick View of E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Sidebar: A Quick View of Teleconferencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Sidebar: A Quick View of Synchronous Chat (IM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Midrange Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Sidebar: A Quick View of Asynchronous Discussion . . . . . . . . . . 28
Sidebar: A Quick View of Videoconferencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Most-Complex Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Sidebar: A Quick View of Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Sidebar: A Quick View of Proprietary Web Course
Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Sidebar: A Quick View of Open-Source Web-Based
Course Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sidebar: A Quick View of Collaborative Online
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Flexible Combinations—Blended Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Right Tool, Right Place—A Few Sample Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sidebar: Distance-Learning Tools—Do’s and Don’ts . . . . . . . . . . 40
What If You Don’t Have a Choice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
A View into the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 2: What to Expect When
You’re Expecting Students
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Understanding Adult Learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Attitudes Toward Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Sidebar: Confidence Strength Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Learning Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sidebar: Three’s the Charm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Generational Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The Endgame: Motivation and Learner-Centered
Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Adult Learners Need … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sidebar: Not Working with Adults? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Now
Let’s Build a Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Chapter 3: Content, Part I:
Instructional Design
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
What Is Instructional Design? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Sidebar: Getting the Most Benefit from an
Instructional Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
General Instructional Design Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Sidebar: Words to Use in Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Sidebar: How Many Objectives? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Distance-Learning Design Particulars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Putting the “Process” in the Design Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Crafting a Topic Syllabus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
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