Table of Contents
Designing for
Distance Learning
What IS Distance Learning?
My Favorite Definition
The Evolution of Distance Learning*
The Beginning
First Generation
(1890s to 1970)
Second Generation
(1960-1985)
Third Generation
(1975-1995)
Third Generation (continued)
Fourth Generation
(1995-2005?)
Fourth Generation (continued)
What IS a Web-based Course?
World Wide Web as Framework for Instruction
Why is Instruction
Moving to the Web?
Davis and Botkin, 1995
Dolence and Norris, 1995
Paradigm Shift
8 Shifts of Interactive Learning (Tapscott)
Heritage of John Dewey, Philosopher and Educator
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