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- Title
Establishing Competencies and Curricula for the Distance Education Expert at the Master's Level.
- Authors
Ally, Mohamed; Coldeway, Dan O.
- Abstract
In the last decade considerable attention has been directed toward issues to do with graduate education at a distance. In addition, concerns over the competencies and expertise required of those working as distance educators or in distance educational organizations has also received attention. Beginning in early 1993 a collaborative inquiry initiative was undertaken among staff in the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University, Canada, in an effort to identify the competencies required of master's-level experts in distance education. A competencies analysis, curriculum plan, and eventually courses were developed for a master's-level program in distance education. This article reviews this development phase and describes the recent work done to revalidate these competencies and curricula for a distance education expert at the master's level. The competencies are then clustered in four skill sets, and basic procedures for developing a taxonomy of cognitive/performance levels and an analysis of content/curricula for distance educators are described. Finally, the implications of this work for other programs and efforts in this important area are outlined.
- Subjects
ATHABASCA (Alta.); ALBERTA; CANADA; GRADUATE education; DISTANCE education; GRADUATE nursing education; GRADUATE study in education; ATHABASCA University; OPEN learning
- Publication
Journal of Distance Education, 1999, Vol 14, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0830-0445
- Publication type
Article