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Vol. 5. No. 1 — April 2001<\/h3>\n

Interview with an Online Instructor (Part 4)<\/h2>\n

Jim Duber<\/a>
\n duber dot com
\n <jim@duber.com<\/a>><\/h4>\n

JD: How do you compare this with developing just a traditional
\nface-to-face course?<\/p>\n

MS: It’s actually a lot more work. In a face-to-face course where a
\nlot of the work is done in maybe choosing a text or putting together
\na reader,…that’s really a matter of putting in a bookstore order or
\nmaybe making some photocopies for a reader to be put together. Here
\nit requires marking up web pages, posting them, uploading things,
\nreformatting, and of course integrating it all into a sort of table
\nof contents structure in a logical way. And then, linking all the
\nquiz information, the bulletin board–so that it all works smoothly
\nas one big package. But, the nice thing about it is…obviously, for
\ndistance learning, you’ve got to have something like this and not
\njust a series of readings on a web page, and then…maybe an
\ne-mail\/chat. I think it gives a much richer environment for students
\nto work in, and offers lots of different ways of learning for
\nstudents, whether they prefer to discuss things more or simply to
\nread and answer questions. It adapts to different learning styles.<\/p>\n

JD: OK, so that addresses the development of the course and all the
\nissues that you face there. What about when you are teaching the
\ncourse?<\/p>\n

MS: The teaching of the course goes rather smoothly, and in fact
\nthat’s where I think distance courses can be kind of less intensive
\nin a way than face-to-face courses…because you have time to…think
\nabout the email questions you get, to mull over the discussion
\nboards, to…look up answers if you need to, and to really give some
\nwell-formed and…well-researched answers when it’s needed;
\nwhere…in class, you don’t often have that ability and sometimes you
\nhave to turn students away and say, “Well, I’ll tell you next class
\ntime after I look it up.” Or, you just kind of stall for time anyway.
\nSo,…the distance model I think allows for teachers to be at their
\nsharpest in lots of ways. But it is a time-management issue. There’s
\na lot of e-mail. I counted at one point in the course I had received,
\nin addition to what’s going on in the bulletin board and on the
\ncourse discussion list, 320 individual e-mails from the course
\nparticipants. So, it takes some time-management skills and some
\nstrategies for working out how to deal with that volume of additional
\ne-mail in your in-box.<\/p>\n

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