The ideal online course

Abstract

This paper addresses many of the key issues facing designers of web-based university level courses. Drawing from experience in distance education and web-based design, we develop a set of key components to be addressed when creating an 'ideal' online course. Such an analysis forces a consideration of what constitutes good online teaching as well as good use of the technologies that are more and more present in our instructional environments.

Video Lectures in eLearning

“…Mini-lectures pose the opportunity of "identification with the instructor and general orientation to the course" (Carr-Chellman & Duchastel, 2000). Although more research is needed to determine that instructor's video is a positive indicator of teaching presence, mini-lectures may be an indicator of teacher's' presence regarding instructor's attributes such as personality traits and dispositions (Sheridan & Kelly, 2010).…”

A Palliative Cancer Care Flexible Education Program for Australian Community Pharmacists

“…The questions required yes/no answers or responses on a Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (0) to strongly agree (10). Participants were also asked how long it took to complete the program and how it could be improved.…”

“…[10][11][12] The noticeboard appeared to be valuable as participants engaged often with its activities. Participants were resistant to using the facility as intended, however, despite instructions in the supporting material, because they became frustrated at being unable to view others' responses without submitting a post; thus, they used the noticeboard as a discussion tool to interact with others.…”

“…Pharmacists are beginning to see the benefit of undertaking palliative care education through less traditional formats such as flexible online programs offering ease of access. [10][11][12][13] Few online education programs in palliative care have been developed for health professionals, 14,15 and none could be found for pharmacists. This is significant given that the need has been identified for pharmacist education in this area locally, providing the impetus for the study reported here.…”

Synchronous support and monitoring in web‐based educational systems

“…It is a medium, which can be accessed easily by tutors and students and it supports multiple representations of the educational content (Hites and Ewing, 1997;Carr-Chellman and Duchastel, 2000).…”