Building the Successful Online Course (PB) 12+

📘 This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses. It is based ona model now in use at Paris Junior College in Paris, TX which has often resulted in retention ratesof over 90%. It will be a comprehensive practitioner's guide including information on retentionand multimedia support.This book will be a guide to anyone who may wish to teach online in any subject area at any level.The book provides actual examples of problems and solutions concerning online courses and alsoincludes examples of supporting documents. Through a supporting Web site, the book will includeactual examples of multimedia support now in use The book might also be used in graduateclasses as a curriculum development guide.Readers would use the book as a guide as they actually create online courses. This would takemost of the guess work out of course creation and provide a solid foundation for distance learningprograms.The book provides a simple yet effective approach to online learning. It uses a model that has been proven to be effective with retentionrates to support the contention. It provides information on a retention study and multimedia support as well, two areas that have notbeen addressed very often to this point.