This document discusses various printed materials used in distance education courses, including syllabi and interactive study guides. It describes the key components of an effective distance education syllabus and the purpose of interactive study guides. The document also covers graphic design principles for visuals, such as font, size, color and alignment. Different types of visuals are defined, including word pictures, semantic maps and mind maps.

1. HANDOUTS,STUDYGUIDES AND
VISUALS
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2. Printed Information
 In today’s society many people are not using
printed materials they have moved to
technology. In distance education there are
two main types of print materials that have
made a huge impact which are the course
syllabus and the interactive guide.
 Distance education began with using only
print based correspondence study.

3. Distance Education Syllabus
 The distance education syllabus should
contain:
 Course Logistics which is the course title,
course meeting dates, times and location. It
should also include the instructor information
office hours and textbook information.
 Course Policies should include attendance
and homework information.

4. Information
 Instructional Activities includes the class
schedule with topic list, the goals and course
and objectives, assignments and the
interactive study guide.
 Assessment Information is the grading
scheme and project evaluation criteria.
 It can also include information such as the
student information and project/assignment
examples.

5. Interactive Studyguides
 The interactive study guides is an important
part of distance education.The purpose of it
is too help students within the course. It is a
version of note taking by the students but
helps with organization and include pictures,
graphs problems and exercises. It consists of
two parts which are known as the display and
the notes section.

6. Graphic Design Principles
 There are five techniques of graphic design
principles and each one serves a purpose.
 Size and it is closely related to legibility.
 Font- it is very important that the same font
be used throughout the whole text.
 Color and Contrast- colors should be bold and
simple
 Alignment- when doing assignments left
justified text is perfect.

7. Information
 Lastly capitalization plays a huge role because
one must know that everything should not be in
uppercase letters.
 There are six elements of design which are line,
shape, space, texture, value, and color.The
elements of design and the principle of design
goes together.The six principles are balance,
center of interest, emphasis, unity, contrast and
rhythm.When combined together it can assist
the distance educator in the development and
facilitate understanding.

8. Important Definitions
 Word picture is a graphic representation of
concepts, principles and information.
 Semantic maps are two dimensional
diagrams that use arrangements of nodes
and links to communicate and show
relationships among ideas.
 Mind maps uses key words organized in
design.
 Cognitive maps provides a graphic expression
of the structure of a body of knowledge.

9. Definitions
 Structured overviews use graphics showing
the relationship of key ideas, concepts and
other information.
 Outlines are visual displays that is useful in
presenting concurrent ideas.
 Patterned note taking is related with mind
mapping. It has keywords in it.
 Webbing has its main idea at the center and
looks a lot like a semantic map.

10. Summary
 In this chapter an analogy is a way to describe
something that is unfamiliar by making it
familiar to something.
 The syllabus is the glue that holds the course
and the learning experience together.
 Visuals to be meaningful and instructional to
be designed effectively. Documents provide
background information, amplify concepts
and give a sense of direction to any and all
instructional events.