IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook, IDEAL Consortium (2016).
The 5th edition of the IDEAL Distance and Blended Learning Handbook is intended as practical guide for educators to support the delivery of distance education, including blended learning. Each of the six chapters of the Handbook focuses on a single aspect of planning and delivering distance education:
- Recruitment: Identifying and Recruiting Students
- Screen: Determining Who is Ready for Distance and Blended Learning
- Orientation: Setting Up Learners for Success
- Instruction: Models and Strategies Supporting Involved Instruction and Communication
- Assessment: Student Participation and Progress
- Administrative Issues: Getting Started with Distance Education
Informed by current research and the work of educators and administrators in the IDEAL program in the U.S. since 2002 this handbook is an invaluable resource to support planning and delivering effective distance and blended learning programs
Retrievable from: http://ideal.worlded.org/pdf/IDEAL_Handbook.pdf