In this course, and in your future career in the field of educational technology, it is likely that you will be expected to oversee and to design online workshops, tutorials, courses, and programs. Thus, this course focuses on instructional design in distance education.

Before we can discuss distance education instructional design, we need to define distance education and understand its unique characteristics. We also need to understand what constitutes effective distance education, especially since part of instructional design in evaluation. We begin our discussion in this course about distance education. Some of this may be a review from previous courses.