Designing Instruction for the Traditional, Adult, and Distance Learner: A New Engine for Technology-Based Teaching

Designing Instruction for the Traditional, Adult, and Distance Learner: A New Engine for Technology-Based Teaching

Lawrence A. Tomei
Release Date: September, 2009|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 470
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-824-6
ISBN13: 9781605668246|ISBN10: 1605668249|EISBN13: 9781605668253
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Description:

Adult students demand a wider variety of instructional strategies that encompass real-world, interactive, cooperative, and discovery learning experiences.

Designing Instruction for the Traditional, Adult, and Distance Learner: A New Engine for Technology-Based Teaching explores how technology impacts the process of devising instructional plans as well as learning itself in adult students. Containing research from leading international experts, this publication proposes realistic and accurate archetypes to assist educators in incorporating state-of-the-art technologies into online instruction.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Allagegogy and the distance learner
  • Andragogy and the adult learner
  • Authentic Assessment
  • Conventional assessment
  • Designing online education
  • Technology and distance learning
  • Technology-based teaching
  • Text-based resources
  • Virtual assessment
  • Visual-based resources
  • Web-Based Resources
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This text proposes a new paradigm for designing, developing, implementing, and assessed technology-based instruction. It addresses three target populations of today's learner: traditional, adult, and distance education.

– Lawrence A. Tomei, Robert Morris University, USA
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Lawrence A. Tomei is a recently retired Professor of Education at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh PA. Born in Akron, Ohio, he earned a BSBA from the University of Akron (1972) and a Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Education at the University of Oklahoma (1975, 1978). He completed his EdD from USC (1983). Dr. Tomei entered the US Air Force in Fall 1972 and served on active duty until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994. He entered higher education as the Director of Administrative Technology at Duquesne University (1994-1998) and joined its School of Education full-time faculty as Instructional Technology Program Director, providing undergraduate, masters, and doctor programs (1998-2004). Some of his books on instructional technology include: Teaching Digitally: Integrating Technology Into the Classroom (2001), Technology Facade (2002), Taxonomy for the Technology Domain (2005), Integrating Pedagogy and Technology: Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Faculty (2015), Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence: A Higher Education Case Study Using the Integrated Readiness Matrix (2016), and Diverse Teaching Strategies for the Technology-Rich Classroom (2019).
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