Distance Education

1. SUPPORT MATERIALS AND
VISUALIZATION FOR DISTANCE
EDUCATION
ANGEL JONES

2. DISTANCE EDUCATION SYLLABUS
Syllabus is a guide for students, and can serve as an organizing document for the entire
course.
Distance Education Syllabus Contains:
• Course Logistic
• Course Policies
• Instructional Activities
• Assessment Information
• Additional Information

3. INTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDE
• Simplified note taking
• Organized and sequenced
• Show lesson structure
• Visualize relationship
• Teacher/learning manager
• Simplified note taking
• Visual outline
• Visualization of instruction
• Content review

4. INTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDE
• Improves the student note taking and makes it more efficient.
• Management tool that directs course activities before, during and after
instruction.
• Can be used in any classroom, including all categories of distance education
systems.
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5. GRAPHIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES
• Size: 32 to 36 point is preferred. Five words per line and five lines per page
• Font: Sans Serif Fonts; Same font should be used in the presentation.
• Color and Contrast: Color should be bold and simple.
• Alignment: Left justified is more legible.
• Capitalization: Uppercase and lowercase lettering.

6. ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
• Line: Portrays, direction, presents objects, and defines the outer shape of
something.
• Shape: Symbolize objects or to show large or small spaces: Height and width
• Space: Positive or negative
• Texture: Used to help define shape or space. Roughness or smoothness of a
surface.
• Value: The degree of lightness or darkness of a surface
• Color: Hue: describes the color, Value: lightness or darkness or a color;
Intensity: purity of a color.

7. PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
• Balance
• Center of interest
• Emphasis
• Unity
• Contrast
• Rhythm

8. WORD PICTURES
• Emphasis placed on the types of symbols
used.
• Cover chunks of information.
• Student attention can be maintained
through the use of fill-ins.
• Emphasize the logical sequence of the class
presentation.
• Provide a complete review of the class
content.
• Used for display by overhead video cameras
• Inexpensive to produce.
• Condense ideas into a few key words.
• Designed to fit the format of television.
• Apply principles of graphic design.
• Emphasize communication via visual sense.
• Require the instructor to think visually
rather that verbally.

9. WORD PICTURES GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
• Semantic Maps
• Mind Maps
• Cognitive Maps
• Structures Overviews
• Outliners
• Patterned note taking
• Webbing
• Pyramiding
• Information mapping

10. VISUAL ANALOGIES COMPONENTS
NewSubject
Ground
Analog Ground
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11. CONSTRUCTING VISUAL ANALOGS
1. Identify clearly what the new subject is.
2. Identify the appropriate connector.
3. Identify the analog.
4. Provide a ground for the comparison of the new and familiar ideas.
5. Develop a visual way to demonstrate the analogy and provide learners with a
visual mnemonic to help them remember the relationship and understand the
new subject.