Friends of ITDE News

Jared Bucker, PhD
Program Professor, ITDE

Briggs, J. & Bucker, A. J. (in press). The development and analysis of a proposed economic model for evaluating costs and benefits of distance education programs. In Rogers, P., Berg, G, Boettcher, J., Howard, C., Justice, L., & Schenk, K (Eds.). Encyclopedia of distance and online learning. New York: IGI Global.

Bucker, A. J. (April, 2009). The California Global Warming Solutions Act and its impact on California's community colleges. National Conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Bucker, A. J. (April, 2009). Cognitive technologies in the teaching and learning of statistics. National Conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Bucker, A. J., & Carri, A. (October, 2008). Game-based e-learning strategies used in instructional technology coursework. Italian Society for E-Learning, Trento, Italy.

Anymir Orellana, EdD
Program Professor, ITDE

Orellana, A., Hudgins, T. L., & Simonson, M. (Eds.) (2009). The perfect online course: Best practices for designing and teaching. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching was edited under the assumption that a perfect online course can be delivered following different instructional methods and models for design and for instruction, and by implementing different teaching or instructional strategies. Such methods, models, and strategies are framed within quality educational guidelines and must be aimed towards attaining the online course’s learning goals.

The book seeks to make a contribution to the existing body of literature related to best practices and guidelines for designing and teaching distance courses, specifically online education. The process of selecting works suitable for this compilation included an extensive review of the journals Quarterly Review of Distance Education and Distance Learning. The book begins by covering literature related to general approaches and guidelines, continues with proposed methods and models for designing and instruction, and ends with instructional strategies to achieve engagement through interaction. The book is divided into four independent, yet interrelated, parts and a concluding section: Part I: Introduction; Part II: Best Guidelines and Standards; Part III: Best Instructional Methods and Models; Part IV: Best Engagement Strategies; and the concluding section, And Finally…, with words from Simonson who delineates the structure of a perfect online course. [From the publisher’s Web site: http://www.infoagepub.com/products/The-Perfect-Online-Course]

Michael Simonson, PhD
Program Professor, ITDE

Simonson, M. (2009). Distance learning: Education beyond buildings. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2009 book of the year. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica .http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1517298/Distance-Learning-Education-Beyond-Buildings

Simonson, M. (2009). Best practices for designing distance Education and the U-M-T approach. In Rogers, P. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of distance learning ( 2nd ed., pp. 181-187), Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Simonson, M. (2009).  Keynote: Open and distance learning: Quality assurance issues. E’Learn Conference: Bridging the development Gap Through Innovative e-Learning Environments. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, WI. June 8-11.

Simonson, M. (2009). Keynote: The future of distance Education. Annual Conference of the Association of Proprietary Colleges. Bolton Landing, NY: June 16-18.

Simonson, M. (2009). Eight steps to transform your organization. Annual Conference of the Association of Proprietary Colleges. Bolton Landing, NY: June 16-18.

Simonson, M. (2009). Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education (4th ed.). Columbus, OH: Prentice-Hall.