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Watching college football,playing with my son.
My favorite music are DMB,Cold Play,Pearl Jam,Billy Joel.
Movies: Fletch,Old School.
TV: Seinfeld,Cheers,Friends,ER,Apprentice.
Books: Da Vinci Code,Firm,Digital Fortress.
Even with pedagogically driven instructional design, an author's credibility and content might be questioned if web pages are poorly designed
"Although I entered the course with high expectations regarding the utility of course management tools such as WebCT to enhance the online learning environment I left thinking that such tools leave much to be desired. Such issues as slower-than-expected response times, less-than-intuitive layouts and navigation proved to be a small source of irritation and an impediment…"
A course web site should contain chunked material, which is a metacognitive feature that helps to minimize learners' feelings of being overwhelmed by content (Jones, Farquhar, & Surry, 1995). Consider use of menus, online h
According to the Southern Regional Education Board (2001), an effective instructional design team will be essential to quality distance learning
here is no single checklist by which to design or evaluate quality.
I had a recent conversation with Phyllis Hecht (phecht@jhu.edu) who is the Associate Program Chair for the Museum Studies online Masters degree at Johns Hopkins University. The purpose of the conversation was to discuss some of the thinking and logistics behind their newly formed online program and to compare their thoughts with those of the Art Education faculty interested in creating an online Masters in Art Educations. Here is what I found.
The proposed course enrollment limit is set to be 15 students. They will go above that limit as needed but their plan is for 15. They plan on offering about two or three courses per semester and also plan on offering courses in the summer as this program is designed for working professionals and the summer is a time where many working professionals plan to take courses.
The faculty used to develop and teach the program courses are adjunct faculty who are located all over the world. They have made this choice in part to keep costs to a minimum in both the creation of the program and also the delivery of the courses.
From a financial side, they do not expect to recover their expenses for about two to three years. They don’t currently have a graduate or undergraduate resident program in Museum Studies but they do have a minor.
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