Fall Schedule 2003
Timing
Content
PreWeek: 08/27-09/02 Getting Started
Week 1: 09/03-09/9

Module 1: Introduction
Introducing the program and the course;
defining Distance Education; working in study groups;
reading assigned literature

Week 2: 09/10-09/16

Module 1: Introduction
Defining Distance education;
presentation of study group work: Due: 09/14.

Week 3: 09/17-09/23

 Module 2: History and Principles of Distance Education
Reading the assigned literature

Week 4: 09/24-09/30

 Module 2: History and Principles of Distance Education
Conferencing with Prof. B. Holmberg
Week 5: 10/01-10/07 Module 2: History and Principles of Distance Education
Assignment writing
Posting of Assignment #1: 10/01
Date for submitting Assignment #1: 10/07
Week 6: 10/08-10/14
 Module 2: History and Principles of Distance Education
Terms, definitions, and subsets of DE (Topic subject to change);
reading the assigned literture
Week 7: 10/15-10/21

Module 3: Pedagogy of Distance Education and Theoretical Approaches to DE
Reading the assigned literature
Week 8: 10/22-10/28
 Module 3: Pedagogy of Distance Education and Theoretical Approaches to DE
Conferencing with Prof. O. Peters
Week 9: 10/29-11/04

Module 3: Pedagogy of Distance Education and Theoretical Approaches to DE
Assignment writing
Posting of Assignment #2: 10/29
Date for submitting Assignment #2: 11/04
Week 10: 11/05-11/11

Module 3: Pedagogy of Distance Education and Theoretical Approaches to DE
Debate: Analyzing asynchronous conferencing

Week 11: 11/12-11/18

Module 4: Institutional Aspects of Distance Education
Group project
Posting of Study Group Project: 11/12
Week 12: 11/19- 11/25 Module 4: Institutional Aspects of Distance Education
Group project
Week 13: 11/26-12/02 Module 4: Institutional Aspects of Distance Education
Group project
Date for submitting Study Group Project: 12/02
Week 14: 12/03-12/09
 Module 4: Institutional Aspects of Distance Education
Individual assignment
Posting of Assignment #3: 12/02
Date for submitting Assignment #3: 12/09
Week 15: 12/10-12/17

Wrapping up