Distance Learning

For Educators, Trainers, and Leaders

Sponsored by the U.S. Distance Learning Association and Information Age Publishing

Indexed in DE Hub

Volume 15 #2, 2018

FEATURED ARTICLES

All Roads Lead to Online Teaching Excellence: An Alternative Route to Faculty Certification for Online Teaching, Nancy Swenson and Shelly Wyatt.

Teaching Qualitative Research Online: Using Technology to Leverage Student Engagement, Elda Veloso, Anymir Orellana, and Jennifer Reeves.

Leveraging the Affordances of Virtual Reality Systems Within K-12 Education: Responding to Future Innovations, Rohan Jowallah, Luke Bennett, and Kathleen Bastedo.

Beyond Chunking: Microlearning Secrets for Effective Online Design, Amanda Major and Tina Calandrino.

TOPKit: An Online Faculty Development Resource, Shelly Wyatt, Wendy Howard, Ashley Salter, and Jessica Tojo.

Users Not Watchers: Motivation and the Use of Discussion Boards in Online Learning, Sarah Ransdell, Jia Borror, and Hui Fang Su.

Accelerating Students Forward to Excellence with UCF Online, Bren Bedford, Beth Nettles, and Karen Tinsley-Kim.

Increasing Social Presence Online: Five Strategies for Instructors, Charlotte Jones-Roberts.

University Partnership: A Grant-Funded Program for Minority and Underserved Populations, Jerry Holt.

COLUMNS: ENDS AND MEANS:

Defining and Conceptualizing Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality — by Natalie B. Milman.

TRY THIS:

THE 12 Key Rules for Managing Time in Online Teaching — by Errol Craig Sull.

ASK ERROL! — by Errol Craig Sull.

AND FINALLY...

Seven Critical Elements — by Michael Simonson