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Tip #2 – Focus on approaches that serve all types of learners.

• Study learning styles
  • http://www.metamath.com//lsweb/dvclearn.htm
  • http://www.aboutlearning.com/aboutlearning/compnts.html
• Consider skills, abilities, culture, handicap accessibility, etc.
  • Quick tips to make accessible web sites http://www.w3.org/WAI

Trick #2 – Review best practices and list ideas of value to your learners.

• Guidelines for Good Practice: Technology Mediated Instruction - http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/Academic Senate Web/Publications/Papers/tech_mediated_instruction.html
• Guidelines for Good Practice:  Effective Instructor-Student Contact in Distance Learning - http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/Academic Senate Web/Publications/Papers/good_practice_distance.html
• Quality on the Line:  Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Distance Education - http://www.ihep.com/Pubs/PDF/Quality.pdf
• WebCT Exemplary Course Project Scoring Rubric - http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=4367802
• Distance Education:  Guidelines for Good Practice  from the American Federation of Teachers, published in the US Distance Learning Association - http://www.usdla.org/ED_magazine/illuminactive/NOV01_Issue/article03.html
• Quality Assurance for Whom?:  Providers and Consumers in Today's Distributed Learning Environment by the Carol Twigg of the Pew Learning and Technology Program - http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono3.html
• ADEC Guiding Principles for Distance Learning from the American Distance Education Consortium - http://www.adec.edu/admin/papers/distance-teaching_principles.html

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