Handouts, Study Guides, and Visuals

Christopher WalkerAPT 502

Chapter Objectives • Develop a distance education course syllabus• Use interactive study guides• Apply graphic design principles • Develop word pictures• Use visual mnemonics

Printed Media

Distance Education Syllabus• Course Logistics• Course Policies• Instructional Activities • Assessment Information• Additional Information

Interactive Study Guide

Handouts• Improves students note taking• Makes it more efficient

Management tool• Directs course activities• Before, during, and after instruction

ISG handouts• Can be used in any classrooms• Even categories of distance education

systems

Principles of design• Balance is the sense of equilibrium• • The center of interest is the visual

focal point of the graphic and should relate to its purpose

• Emphasis is closely related to the center of interest

Word picture pyramid EvaluationSynthesis

Application

Comprehension

Knowledge

Components of an analogyNew Subject Ground

Analog

Ground

• Structural Relationship – shows the similarity in appearance and design of the two concepts.

• Functional Relationship – describes what concepts do or how they work. Functional relationships show not only what the subject and the analog have in common but also what they do that is similar

Summary• Printed handouts and teaching learning material is

critically important to the practice of distance education• The course syllabus is the glue that brings it all together• The syllabus can be expanded • The ISG is also very important and it provides the distant

learner with a logical sequence for the distance education lesson

Handouts, Study Guides, and Visuals

Christopher WalkerAPT 502