Online Course Standards Principles of Good Practice for Technology Mediated Instruction From State Academic Senate - Spring 1997 1. Good Practice encourages contacts between students and faculty. Emerging technologies should enhance this principle. Phone technology, email, electronic chat rooms and world wide web homepages are examples that have extended the traditional office hour, promoting alternative interaction between the teacher and student.
Technology can accommodate students needs and personal life constraints.
Good Practice develops reciprocity and cooperation among students. Collaboration, learning communities and work groups are now extended by tools like listservs and newsgroups, such interactions are not limited to classmates in the same room, but may in fact cross large distances to give access to a world wide community. Asynchronous communications compensates for time zones and busy schedules. Good Practice uses active learning techniques. Learning is not a spectator sport.