Student Course Guide for Shaping America to Accompany The America

Bedford/St. Martin's joins Dallas TeleLearning at the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications to offer a complete distance learning package that includes Dallas TeleLearning’s highly praised video lessons; the text of The American Promise, Fourth Edition; print Student Course Guides that fully integrate the video with the text; and a full array of supplements. The distance learning courses Shaping America: U.S. History to 1877 and Transforming America: U.S. History since 1877 each include 26 half-hour video lessons delivered in the following formats: telecourse, interactive telecourse (CD-ROM), and Internet.

Dr. Kenneth G. Alfers is a teacher, writer, and historian. He received the Dallas County Community College District’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1983. In 2005, he was named Piper Professor for the state of Texas and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distance Learning from the Instructional Technology Council. He was the content specialist for America: The Second Century, America in Perspective, and Shaping America telecourses used around the country since 1980. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Creighton University and his M.Ph. and Ph.D. degrees from The George Washington University.