This document discusses the use of printed materials and visual aids to support distance education. It recommends developing an interactive study guide and distance education syllabus to direct course activities and assessments. The study guide can improve note-taking and be used across different distance learning platforms. When designing visuals, principles of balance, center of interest, and emphasis should be followed. Word pictures and analogies can also help distant learners by showing structural and functional relationships between concepts.

1. Handouts, Study
Guides, and Visuals
Christopher Walker
APT 502

2. Chapter Objectives
• Develop a distance education course syllabus
• Use interactive study guides
• Apply graphic design principles
• Develop word pictures
• Use visual mnemonics

3. Printed Media

4. Distance Education Syllabus
• Course Logistics
• Course Policies
• Instructional Activities
• Assessment Information
• Additional Information

5. Interactive Study Guide
Handouts
• Improves students note taking
• Makes it more efficient
Management tool
• Directs course activities
• Before, during, and after instruction
ISG handouts
• Can be used in any classrooms
• Even categories of distance education
systems

6. Principles of design
• Balance is the sense of equilibrium
•
• 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

7. Word picture pyramid
Evaluation
Synthesis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge

8. Components of an analogy
New
Subject
Ground
Analog
Ground
• Structural Relationship – shows the
similarity in appearance and design
of the two concepts.
• Functional Relationship – describes
what concepts do or how they
work. Functional relationships show
not only what the subject and the
analog have in common but also
what they do that is similar

9. Summary
• Printed handouts and teaching learning material is
critically important to the practice of distance education
• The course syllabus is the glue that brings it all together
• The syllabus can be expanded
• The ISG is also very important and it provides the distant
learner with a logical sequence for the distance education
lesson

10. Handouts, Study
Guides, and Visuals
Christopher Walker
APT 502