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Sunday, May 30, 2004
Less is More: Designing an Online Course - R. Thomas Berner, DEOS News
A couple of years ago the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a long article about distance education. The article focused on an instructor in meteorology who seemed chained to his computer because of his promise to answer all posts within 24 hours. The headline on the article: “The 24-Hour Professor: Online Teaching Redefines Faculty Members' Schedules, Duties, and Relationships With Students.”[1] It was an unfortunate piece of publicity for the instructor, the university and distance education. It showed that the instructor’s department had not properly prepared him to design an online course and it sent the message to would-be online instructors that teaching online was onerous and unrewarding.
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