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No Frills (but Highly Effective) Course Materials

The content of an online course is like a book. Maybe a book with pictures, but a book nonetheless. Words, sentences, paragraphs, pages of text.

On your course Web site you might want to display:

  • Lectures
  • Lecture Notes
  • Readings
  • Assignments
  • Case Studies

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A course delivered partly or entirely online is NOT the same as a traditional course.

Putting It All Together

Now, all these tips for building your syllabus assume that you have already organized your course materials in a way that will make sense on the Web. A word of caution here:

A COURSE DELIVERED PARTLY OR ENTIRELY ONLINE IS NOT THE SAME AS A TRADITIONAL COURSE.

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Design Phase: Special Considerations Online

Special Considerations for Online Courses

Mastery of the design process starts with understanding your “units of learning.”

A Unit of Learning (click to enlarge)

A Unit of Learning (click to enlarge)



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Get organized!

4 DsThis will be a short post. Taking up where we left off in the last post (”5. What have I got inside, in the way of physical energy, ideas, knowledge, skills that I could use to generate some income?”)…The first thing to do is start thinking about what you know in an organized way. There is a kind of thinking process you go through, no matter what you’re trying to do, the starts with opening up to possibility. Then comes paying attention to everything around you that is even remotely related to what you’re thinking about. Then comes narrowing down your thinking to something you can focus on and try to accomplish.

I’m a big fan of mnemonics and tricks for remembering, so, after studying what professionals call the “Design Cycle” process I came up with what I call the 4 Ds: Discovery, Design, Development, Delivery.

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