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Friday, October 11, 2002
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/OCT02_Issue/article08.html A Case Study of Essentials of Practice at an Online University Muhammad Betz Introduction: As the momentum for offering online courses at all levels of the educational enterprise continues to show significant growth, expertise in the online medium is becoming more valuable. It was for this reason that I sought out a position with a prominent, online university about a year and a half ago. In a recent article, Faculty Training at an Online University (Muirhead & Betz, 2002), I described my experiences in preparing to become an online instructor at said online university. The major preparations were conducted in a four-week training course that stressed the basics of "facilitating"an online course. Like any world class organization, an online university cannot allow one initial training course to suffice as a harbinger of educational quality and excellence. The next step in the quality assurance matriculation is a mentorship, in which faculty candidates offer their first course online under the watchful eye and expert guidance of a Mentor, who has undergone formal preparations for that role....
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