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Teaching at a Distance With the Merging Technologies : An Instructional Systems Approach

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A must read for ALL educators even though it addresses the specific audience of community college and university instructors, corporate and business trainers, health profession trainers, government and military trainers, and public school teachers. This book not only provides many references from the literature but explores the new skills needed for teaching with all of the emerging technologies. It also provides examples of how to use the given information in faculty development workshops. An extensive glossary provides help with technical vocabulary. Word pictures are used extensively to summarize key points throughout the book. It is well written, easy to follow and understand, and is visually stimulating. I would highly recommend it for ALL levels of experience in this area.

As a Faculty Development Instructor with a Master's in Instructional Technology, I look at a lot of books on how to teach forms of distance learning instructional design. This book has some of the best ideas for interactive learning strategies I have seen. While it does involve web-based courses it is strongest on teletraining. I would recommend a companion book to compliment it in Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt which deals more in depth on how to facilitate an online instructor-facilitated course.