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This weeks posting is a blatant commercial pitch for an e-book we are very proud of. And, it will definitely help your course participants get ready to learn online.

Learning online is NOT the same as learning in a classroom. Even though many if not most young people know how to surf the Web and hold an instant chat, no one teaches them how to learn online. It’s an art and a craft unto itself.

Besides, fewer and fewer students today are younger than springtime? As a result, your students may not have the computer know-how we take for granted in the young. They may be mothers out of the loop since before their kids were born. They may be retired seniors with plenty of enthusiasm but no keyboard experience. They may be working adults with jobs that don’t involve computers.

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A Simple Syllabus

A huge number of people use Microsoft Word as their standard way of writing documents. Another great option is the free, open source Write program in Open Office Suite from http://www.openoffice.org/. Write is a great word processor, easy to learn and easy to use. The suite also includes a drawing program, spreadsheet, database and slideware (called, respectively, Draw, Calc, Base, and Impress). Each application can use Microsoft files and all files can be saved as Microsoft compatible files (for example, doc, xls, ppt) so you can share them with those who still use the standard Microsoft applications.
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Unless you’ve never used a computer before, you already know how to do Step 1, so we’re going to let you do that part on your own.

So write a syllabus, lectures, assignments, maybe a biography of yourself, perhaps a list of books and articles, and, of course, at least a few addresses to pertinent Web sites. Pull together everything you want to deliver online. Once you’ve written one or more of these files, you can move on to Steps 2, 3, and 4.