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Course organization for distance education: UMT approach

dc.contributor.authorSimonson, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-12T09:04:19Z
dc.date.available2012-01-12T09:04:19Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractDistance Education literature has clearly indicated that the design and organization of an online course are predictors of course effectiveness—poorly designed and organized courses often fail and well designed and organized courses are almost always effective. In other words, the student in a course delivered at a distance should be able to quickly understand the scope and sequence of the contents of the course, including assessment strategies used to determine if learning outcomes have been met. This chapter proposes a field-tested approach for designing and delivering an effective online course called the U-M-T approach, where U stands for Unit, M for Module, and T for topic. Courses are designed around units that are divided into modules, and modules are divided further into topics. Thus, a typical course might have 3 units, each with 3 or 4 modules, and each module might have 3 important topics. This chapter expands on this basic design approach and discusses assessment strategies and student time allocations in order to produce the perfectly designed online course.por
dc.identifier.citationCibertextualidades. Porto. ISSN 1646-4435. 4 (2011) 39-54.por
dc.identifier.issn1646-4435
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10284/2301
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.publisherEdições Universidade Fernando Pessoa. CECLICO - Centro de Estudos Culturais, da Linguagem e do Comportamentopor
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCibertextualidades; 4
dc.subjectAssignmentspor
dc.subjectDesignpor
dc.subjectModulepor
dc.subjectResearchpor
dc.subjectTheorypor
dc.subjectUnitpor
dc.titleCourse organization for distance education: UMT approachpor
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage54por
oaire.citation.startPage39por
person.familyNameSimonson
person.givenNameMichael
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-3478-7879
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor
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