Basic Services
- Design distance education programs;
- Train in teleconference techniques;
- Design local site and learner support systems;
- Undertake needs assessment and front-end analysis;
- Conduct program evaluation;
- Design and conduct workshops and seminars for trainers, teachers, administrators ,and policy makers;
- Contact potential customers and suppliers in Europe and the United States on behalf of companies in developing and transitional countries producing telematics goods and services for education, training, and learning.
Expertise is available in both pedagogical and technical aspects of all delivery media, including:
- audio, audio-graphic, video (satellite and fiber optic cable) and computer conferencing;
- audio and video recording and broadcasting;
- textual design and use of print in study guides and manuals.
A primary concern is the design of integrated media systems aimed at providing the most cost effective mix of delivery technologies.
Representative Consultants' Services
- Identify economic, social and political forces impacting, positively and negatively, on the development of distance education within the state, nation, or organization;
- Determine appropriate distance education model, based on identified learner needs, with lowest cost technology appropriate to meeting those needs;
- Provide optimum delivery system, using media in appropriate configurations;
- Provide instructional design appropriate to the learning needs and technology available;
- Address issues of attitude change, particularly among professional educators and trainers.
Some stages in distance learning course design
- Determine program goals and objectives;
- Determine implementation procedures;
- Identify learning support sites and services needed;
- Draw up program delivery schedule;
- Determine evaluation procedures;
- Determine staff recruitment procedures;
- Plan staff training program;
- Draw up financing plans;
- Write objectives;
- Design course content;
- Design learning evaluation;
- Chose learning resources;
- Design and produce materials.
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