The Dallas TeleLearning staff appreciates the role distance learning professionals serve to further distance learning initiatives. This resource page is designed to provide resources to assist in distance learning courseware promotion, implementation and instruction. Please feel free to link directly to these resources.

What is Distance Learning?
Dallas TeleLearning hopes to help you promote distance education to your students.  In support of this effort, we have prepared this distance education promotional video for your institution's use.  Contact us if you need the video provided in another format for customization.

   View the Dallas TeleLearning Promotional version 
 
From Distance to Desktop - The Interactive Course Video
This video briefly explains this new courseware model, features, and benefits.

The Emerging Learner - a three part distance education success video series. Link to our website to maximize your distance education student's learning experience. 
 
Interactive Course Handbook (PDF 2.68MB) - is a helpful tool for implementation and navigation of the new Interactive Course.

Interactive Course Demo Illustrated in Blackboard
The Interactive Course is complimented by the tools of a platform if your institution has invested in one. To view, login in use
username: dallas 
password: dallas09
Click on Access eCampus

Dallas TeleLearning PSA String - we have put all of our 30 second courseware PSAs together for your convenience (Accounting to Physical Fitness).
Video for lowspeed connection Video for highspeed connection

Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are available for each course. These 25- to 30-second video clips give a brief summary of the course and allow the institution to add registration and other institutional information. These may be broadcast and/or video-streamed on the institution's website as a promotion. Course logos are also available electronically for promotional use.

A Faculty Guide for each Dallas course is available to institutions upon licensing. This guide is an excellent resource for the instructor of the course. It provides a synopsis of the course design and gives course management suggestions, such as a sample syllabus that the instructor may customize, recommendations for video air-dates, orientation and testing schedules. A print and electronic copy of this guide is available when the institution licenses the course by contacting Dallas TeleLearning directly.

A Test bank for each Dallas course is available in print and electronic formats. Each test bank includes questions from the textbook and course video lessons. Test banks are available through the textbook publisher. Publisher contact information is provided at the bottom of our textbook list.

THE COST OF ONLINE COURSES
Before an institution of higher education ventures into online education, a complete understanding of costs to be encountered is essential. This paper will assist institutions in realizing these costs, whether tangible or perceived, what effects online courses may have on an institution, and possible problems that may be encountered with ongoing course offerings.

Is Distance Learning Worth It? Helping to Determine the Costs of Online Courses
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Get a firsthand look at what it costs to develop an online course. (Cost Analysis Worksheet)
Is Distance Learning Worth It? Helping to Determine the Costs of Online Courses: Online Cost Analysis