References

Moore, G. S., Winograd, K., & Lange, D. (2001). You Can Teach Online: Building a Creative Learning Environment. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Moore, M. & Kearsley, G. (1996). Distance Education: A Systems View. Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Publishing.

Palloff, R. M., & Pratt, K. (1999). Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace : Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Salmon, G. (2000). E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online. London: Kogan Page Press.

The American Journal of Distance Education, http://www.ajde.com/

Beaudin, B. P. (1999). Keeping Online Asynchronous Discussions on Topic. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 3(2), 41-53. http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v3n2/v3n2_beaudin.asp

Berner, R. T. (2003). The Benefits of Bulletin Board Discussion in a Literature of Journalism Course. The Technology Source (September/October). http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1036&action=print

Boettcher, J. V. (1999). How Many Students Are Just Right in a Web Course? Retrieved January 26, 2004, from http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/number.htm

Brown, D. G. (2002, October). Connecting with Students. Syllabus, 16, 24. http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6776

Brown, D. G. (2002, January). Interactive Teaching. Syllabus, 15, 23.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=5918

Brown, D. G. (2002, September). Accounting for Team Learning. Syllabus, 16, 27.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6709

Chickering, A. W., & Ehrmann, S. C. (1996). Implementing The Seven Principles: Technology as Lever. AAHE Bulletin, 49(2), 3-6. http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

Edelstein, S., & Edwards, J. (2002). If You Build It, They Will Come: Building Learning Communities Through Threaded Discussions. Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 5(1).
http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring51/edelstein51.html

Frazee, R. V. (2003). Using Relevance to Facilitate Online Participation in a Hybrid Course. Educause Quarterly, 26(4), 67-69. http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm03411.pdf

Hanna, N. R. (2002). Chat with Confidence and Content: A Qualitative Study on the Levels of Interaction in Science Content Online Chats. Paper presented at the WebCT 2002 - 4th Annual User Conference, Boston.
http://booboo.webct.com/2002/papers/hanna.pdf

Klemm, W. R. (1998). Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences. Technological Horizons in Education (THE) Journal, 26(1).  http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A1997.cfm

Klemm, W. R. (2002). Extending the Pedagogy of Threaded-Topic Discussions. The Technology Source.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1015

Ragan, L. C., & Terheggen, S. L. (2003). Effective Workload Management Strategies for the Online Environment: The Pennsylvania State University World Campus.
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/pub/home/fac/workload_strat.pdf

UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html


Locations of Example Distance Education Instructional Methods

Forum:
NCSA Emerging Technologies for Science, Education and Business http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/course98/html/topics/week4.html

Case Study:
The River Dammed: The Proposed Removal of the Lower Snake River Dams http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/snake_river/snake_river.html

Learning Contracts:
http://www-distance.syr.edu/contract2.html
http://home.twcny.rr.com/leclair/syllabi/LearningContract.htm
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infotrac/islearningcontracts.html

Projects:
The Great Paper Airplane Challenge
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/projects/math/airplane.html

Keys to Successful Projects
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/guidelines/Rogers.html

Mentoring:
Electronic Emissary
http://emissary.wm.edu/

International Telementor Program
http://www.telementor.org/

Example Discussion Group Guidelines

“Class Participation” guide: http://www.uidaho.edu/ag/agecon/391/classdiscuss.htm
Instructor: John Foltz
Course: Ag Econ 391, Agribusiness Management
Institution: University of Idaho

Glossary

Anchored instruction: Connecting learning to the interests and prior experiences of learners.

Generative learning strategies: Help the student “make the content his or her own.” (Examples provided in this destination included recall strategies, organizational strategies, integrative strategies, and elaboration strategies.)

Learner-content interaction the student interacts with the course materials

Learner-instructor interaction involves direct communication between the learner and the instructor

Learner-learner interaction as " inter-learner interaction, interaction between one learner and other learners, alone or in group settings, with or without the realtime presence of an instructor" (Distance Education: A Systems View, p. 131). 

Rubric is a set of rules or directions that guide the scoring of educational activities that are subjective in nature.

Support Materials

Distance Education Teaching Strategies

E-moderators site
http://www.emoderators.com/moderators.shtml
Resources for moderators and facilitators of Online Discussion. Maintained by Mauri Collins and Zane Berge.

Tipsheets for Faculty

Managing Learner-Instructor Interaction and Feedback
The Pennsylvania State University, Teaching and Learning with Technology Unit http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/research/interaction.shtml

Ideas for Distance Learning by Robert Bramucci
California State University, Fullerton, Faculty Development Center
http://fdc.fullerton.edu/teaching/learning/STG2001_IDEAS.htm
Includes sections on discussion boards, chat rooms, and group work.

Effectively Using Electronic Conferencing
http://www.indiana.edu/~ecopts/ectips.html
Indiana University, Bloomington