Babatunde 2

The following course outline is for this Semester and it is downloadable from the hyperlink. The course will be removed after the Semester. The course is a 3-credit hour course and requires you to undertake some practicals. These will be included later in the Semester. You will also have to take a minimum of three TMAs, these had been scheduled for three weekly interval and shall be made available later.in the new outline. I am giving you in some of the topics a combination of full texts and powerpoint presentations.Use these for your self paced study. Post questions to me in my e-mail box if you have any difficulties or any questions. At the end of the course descriptions below, I also provide you some references for further reading.

RET 601: OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING MODELS AND CONTEXTS

Early Years of Distance Education

Generations of Open and Distance Learning

Technology and Distance Education

RET 713    RESEARCH METHODS IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING

Research in Education

Purpose and steps in Research

Reviewing Literature in ODL: are there limits?

RET 715   E-LEARNING, TECHNOLOGY AND THE THIRD LEG IN ODL

The early days of Educational Technology

The development of e-learning as a discipline

ICT and Education

E-Learning Today

AMERICAN RHETORICS

Political speeches

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress: I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride ­­ humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this forum of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the