This document discusses how printed study guides and visuals can enhance distance education. It describes how interactive study guides are created using principles of graphic design to visualize key ideas. The study guides act as the basis for interactive television graphics in distance education courses. Guidelines are provided for design elements like size, font, color, alignment and capitalization to improve legibility for television. Interactive study guides help simplify notes, organize lessons, show relationships between topics, and allow for review of the instructional content.

1. HANDOUT STUDY GUIDES AND VISUALS
BY ALLISON BARBEE

2. PRINTED MEDIA
 PRINTED LESSON WAS USED TO CONVEY CONTENT INFORMATION AS WELL AS TO ASSESS LEARNING
IN CORRESPONDENCE STUDY.
 PRINTED MATERIALS CAN ENHANCE TEACHING, LEARNING, AND MANAGING IN DISTANCE
EDUCATION.
 TWO KINDS OF INSTRUCTOR-CREATED PRINT MEDIA CAN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE DISTANCE
EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT— THE COURSE SYLLABUS AND THE INTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDE.
 GRAPHIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES CAN BE APPLIED TO DEVELOP STUDY GUIDES THAT USE VISUAL
MNEMONICS AND WORD PICTURES FOR THE VISUALIZATIONS OF KEY INSTRUCTIONAL IDEAS.

3. WHAT DOES THE SYLLABUS LOOK LIKE?
 THE TYPICAL DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE SYLLABUS IS SIMILAR TO THE SYLLABUS USED IN ANY
OTHER COURSE. COURSE LOGISTICS
 COURSE TITLE
 COURSE MEETING DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS
 INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION, INCLUDING NAME, OFFICE ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, E-MAIL ADDRESS,
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, AND EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION
 OFFICE HOURS
 TEXTBOOK AND COURSE MATERIALS COURSE POLICIES
 ATTENDANCE POLICIES
 HOMEWORK POLICIES
 PARTICIPATION INFORMATION

4. CONTINUED
 CLASS SCHEDULE WITH TOPIC LIST (IF THE COURSE IS A SYNCHRONOUS ONE WITH REGULARLY SCHEDULED
CLASS SESSIONS)
 TOPIC LIST AND TOPIC ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPT MAP (IF THE COURSE IS AN ASYNCHRONOUS ONE
WITH TOPICS THAT CAN BE STUDIED AT THE LEARNER’S DISCRETION)
 COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
 READING ASSIGNMENTS WITH LINKS TO TOPICS
 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR READINGS (IF SPECIAL DISCUSSION SESSIONS ARE SCHEDULED ONLINE, THEN
THE TIMELINE FOR DISCUSSING CERTAIN TOPICS CAN BE INCLUDED)
 ASSIGNMENTS
 TEST AND EXAMINATION INFORMATION
 INTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDES 206 PART II
 TEACHING AND LEARNING AT A DISTANCE DESIGN

5. USING INTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDES
 Using universal study tools may seem a bit pushing it. These sites are key to succeeding.
 Quizlet
 Evernote
 Studyblue
 Studystack
 Memorize.com
 Schooltraq

6. HOW THIS TIES TO DISTANCE TECHNOLOGY
 iNTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDES ARE OFTEN USED AS THE BASIS FOR INTERACTIVE TELEVISION GRAPHICS IN
DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES.
 SIZE. LETTER SIZE IS VERY CLOSELY RELATED TO LEGIBILITY. LARGE, BOLD LETTERING IS EASIER TO SEE AND
READ THAN IS SMALLER LETTERING.
 FONT. SANS SERIF FONTS SHOULD BE USED INSTEAD OF FONTS WITH SERIFS, THE THIN EXTENSIONS TO
LETTERS OFTEN USED IN TEXTBOOKS AND PRINTED DOCUMENTS
 COLOR AND CONTRAST. COLOR IS OFTEN MISUSED IN TELEVISION. COLORS SHOULD BE BOLD AND SIMPLE
AND SHOULD NOT BE OVERDONE.
 ALIGNMENT. CENTERING TEXT FOR TELEVISION DISPLAY IS NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS ALIGNING TEXT TO THE
LEFT. LEFT-JUSTIFIED TEXT SEEMS TO BE MOST LEGIBLE.
 CAPITALIZATION. THE LITERATURE ON READABILITY IS QUITE CLEAR THAT UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE
LETTERING, RATHER THAN ALL UPPERCASE OR ALL LOWERCASE, READS THE BEST.

7. DESIGN
 THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGN ARE COMBINED ACCORDING TO THE GUIDELINES PROVIDED BY THE
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. THERE ARE SIX PRINCIPLES:
 BALANCE IS THE SENSE OF EQUILIBRIUM IN A VISUAL. THE TWO KINDS OF BALANCE ARE FORMAL AND
INFORMAL.
 THE CENTER OF INTEREST IS THE VISUAL FOCAL POINT OF THE GRAPHIC AND SHOULD RELATE TO ITS
PURPOSE.
 EMPHASIS IS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE CENTER OF INTEREST. • UNITY MEANS THAT A VISUAL HOLDS
TOGETHER TO CONVEY ITS PURPOSE
 CONTRAST REFERS TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN OBJECT THAT CAUSE IT TO STAND OUT
 RHYTHM COMES FROM REPETITION THROUGH VARIETY AND IS USED TO DRAW A VIEWER THROUGH THE
VARIOUS OBJECTS IN A VISUAL

8. ISG
 Simplified notes
 Oraganizing
 Lesson structure
 See relationships

9. ISG ADVANTAGES
 Teachers  learners
 Simple notes
 Outlines
 Seeing the instruction
 Reviews

10. BY ALLISON BARBEE