Media Selection

Media used in distance education may lag behind the technological cutting edge to ensure that the technology is readily accessible to students. However, it should not be out of date and ineffective. Multiple authors have discussed principles and guidelines to select media. We will consider what four sets of guidelines:

  • Moore and Keasley's Two Media Selection Factors
  • Davidson-Shiver and Rasmussen's Media Selection Questions

Gange's Conditions of Learning Media Selection Criteria

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Is technology neutral?

Another good resource for those of you who are planning to work in the business arena is a chapter in Rothwell et al.'s (2006) Handbook of Training Technologies. The authors classify media, provide steps to selecting media, give a model for relating media, and discuss the competencies needed for certain media (p. 103-119).

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