Teaching Styles and Web Pages

This site offers instructors a starting point for designing websites to support distance education courses.

The first step in designing web sites for instruction is to choose an approach that is based on the preferred teaching style of the instructor.  Each teaching style involves a number of underlying assumptions and the design of the web site must respect these.  By understanding these assumptions, faculty can build websites that utilize patterns of instruction that work for each particular style.  The first section introduces these ideas.

The second step is to understand the technology in producing and publishing web pages.  The skills for designing and writing web pages can be made easier by using programs to help.  The second section links you to the resources and ideas for creating your web site.

Using Teaching Styles to Plan

Identifying your teaching styles is the beginning of designing effective web sites.  The next step is to identify the instruction patterns -- the teaching rhythms -- common to the preferred teaching style.  Finally, you should translate your teaching rhythms into a set of web pages that use your style to organize appropriate instructional relations.

Step 1: Teaching style
Go to this page to review ideas about teaching styles and take an inventory to identify your preferred style.

Step 2: Instructional design and teaching styles
Go to this page to learn about different design approaches for each teaching style.

Step 3: Select a Teaching Rhythm
Go to this page to review a range of teaching rhythms that might serve as an organizer for your website.

Step 4: Planning web site around your style
Go to this page to review web templates according to teaching styles, instructional design guidelines, and rhythm ideas. You might choose one of the templates to get started.

Creating Web Pages

Learning how to create web pages can be easy with the right kind of software.  Below are some good starting points.

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