| Start | RPR Cycle | Resources | Practices | Results | Accessibility | Future |Paper |

Focus shifts from the institution to the instructor.

Quality accessible distance teaching begins with the careful design of courses, materials and learning activities.

Next, the instructional practices employed during instruction will aim at developing independent learners with the ability to transfer their learning to novel situations.

Throughout the course, effective communication and community building are essential foundations for all events.

Success factors for the Practices phase:

• Focus on content and students
• Relevant and important skills and knowledge addressed in courses
• Structured information presented in motivating context
• Social strategies to promote student comfort, control, challenge
• Fast feedback from instructors to students
• Consistent and accessible design throughout each course
• Highly interactive activities for student engagement
• Authentic communication among students, instructors and experts
• Course activities designed to maximize student motivation
• Activities focused on high-level cognitive skills
• Development of information literacy
• Development of applied technical skills