Supporting students for success in online and distance education / Ormond Simpson
Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2012
Edition
3rd ed.
Descript
xx, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
SUMMARY
"Supporting Students for Success in Online and Distance Learning, 3rd Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of student support both on and off campus. "-- Provided by publisher
CONTENT
Introduction: distance education-successes and failures -- Student support in online and distance education - definitions and practices -- Non-academic student support -- Academic support - tuition -- Theories of student support -- Learning motivation for distance education student support -- Designing student support for success -- Media for support - E-learning -- Enrollment, induction, and preparation -- Retrieval -- Cost benefits of student support in online and distance education -- Course design and support for success -- Student support outside the institution -- Student support for different students -- Evaluation, research, innovation, and change in student support -- Staff development and institutional structures for student success in distance education -- A last word