%0 Journal Article
%T THE PERFECT ONLINE COURSE: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching
%A Reviewed by Cengiz Hakan AYDIN
%J The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
%D 2010
%I Anadolu University, Eskisehir
%X The growth of online learning all over the world arise new challenges. One of the major challenges is the issue of quality. What should an online course look like? What kinds of instructional strategies should be provided? To what extent various kinds of interactions must be required? What are the effective learning activities? For what functions should different technologies be used? How can learning be assessed? And similar and more questions have yet no standardized answers although they have been around since early implementations of online learning. Each provider uses different standards developed by either themselves or some institutions or some researchers. Sloan-C: Pillars of Quality, Robley and Wince¡¯s Rubric for Quality Interactions, Concord Model, Schrum¡¯s Qualities of Successful Students, Quality Matters, and E-excellence: Quality Manual for E-learning in Higher Education are among many of these standards.The book, entitled as The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching is also trying to establish a list of standards about how to design and implement an effective online course.The main goal of the book is to create a framework of quality educational guidelines that can be used to offer ¡°perfect¡± online course.
%U http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde39/pdf/review_2.pdf