The document discusses recommendations for open and distance education. It emphasizes the importance of universal design of online courses to accommodate different learning styles and capabilities. The teacher must be available to help students and provide feedback and resources to support all learners, including those with disabilities. The role of the teacher is as a guide to make knowledge accessible. Students are advised to be organized with their time and space when studying online and to find additional resources to complement course materials.

1. Open and Distance Education
By: Marcela Malagón

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3. Knowledge becomes a function of how the individual creates
meaning from his or her experiences; it is not a function of what
someone else says is true." (Jonassen, 1995)
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4. Teacher Recommendations on an online course
Teacher must do an universal design of the course considering
different types of learning as well as capabilities. Is better since the
beginning than to consider doing during the course.
Teacher must show availability to the learner to clear out doubts,
questions, find new resources; in case that the ones planned out
on the course are not working on a particular learner style. To
plan ahead can turn to a great help in the process.

5. Good Environment:
The teacher must provide the elements required in order to promote an
environment of interaction among the students and the teacher, communication
back and forth (feedback).
Enough consulting resources, information appliances to reach out the tasks
assigned in the lesson plan for all type of students including with certain disability.
With the aim that the learner feels confident with the teacher back up and support
in order to solve different problems on the way to carry on the activities. The
learner must feel accompanied by the teacher throughout the course development.

6. Role of the teacher:
 Teacher must be a guide and a provider of
knowledge to make this unknown world accessible for
everyone.

7. Recommendations for the LEARNER:
1)
The student must be organized in time and space.
2)
The ones that study on line must have some limitations but everything
can be work out using prior knowledge as a propeller to achieve the
new goal. Look for other resources to complement.
3) In order to continue receiving the benefits of studying on line the student
must carry a method and find the most confortable way to continue learning
in a new environment of information and communication.

8. Resources:
Books
Ebooks
Uploaded material (documents, specialized articles)
Video
Videoconferences
Audio
Information appliances

9. References:
Information “Retrieve” On March 07 2014, Guiding Principles for Distance
Teaching and Learning. From the web page:
http://www.adec.edu/admin/papers/distance-teaching_principles.htm
“Retrieve” on March 7 2014, Real connections making Distance Learning
accesible for everyone from the site web: youtube.com
http://youtu.be/8heHOT8pytQ