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Makale Özeti:
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Distance Education is a kind of teaching in which a variety of teaching activities and the
communication between students are achieved through peculiarly prepared contents and
environments at a certain station in the cases when there is no possibility to conduct inclass
activities. One of the most significant constraints of distance education conducted by
several universities is the lack of qualified content and the limitations in the presentation
of the content. Herein there is a need for reference models that will show how to make
material design, constitute an efficient theoretical base for presentation of the course
content. Therefore, in this study for material design in Distance Education, Elaboration
Theory was employed, and a sample course design was accomplished. With its seven basic
components (an Elaborative Sequence, Learning Prerequisite Sequences, Summarizers,
Synthesizers, Analogies, Cognitive Strategy Activators, Learner Control) Elaboration
Theory guides the teaching designers about how the teaching content and its
presentations should be. In this study, a material design including four subjects was
conducted for an introductory programming course in the scope of guiding principles of ET,
and at every stage of this design, four experts’ views were received in order to ensure its
validity. The suggested style of material design is hoped to eliminate at a visible level the
insufficiencies in favor of synchronous distance learning practices.
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