Have you ever felt like you're drowning in a sea of sticky notes, scribbled diagrams, and half-ready ideas trying to create an online course? I get it! Planning your online course can be overwhelming, but with a clear strategy and guidance, you can do it quickly. This post covers a step-by-step guide to planning your course topic, finding your audience, and developing a strategic plan for success.
Choosing between a Learning Management System (LMS) and a standalone online learning platform is a critical decision for course creators and organisations alike. This post breaks down the key differences, from features to audience, helping you select the right tool for your eLearning goals.
As Halloween creeps in, I decide to face my learning ghosts. I reveal the spine-chilling truth: my learning design closet is a graveyard of past mistakes. These skeletons and ghosts, more frightening than Chucky, have taught me some valuable lessons. Read my Halloween confession!
Everyone learns differently, with various motivations, environments and deliveries providing people with alternative methods of receiving and retaining information. Teachers use different approaches to learning to target different types of learners, making their lessons engaging and stimulating. Learn how learning happens and how to use domains to improve your design.
Organising and structuring the content in your online course helps everyone enjoy the learning process and quickly find the sections needed. In this post I am sharing tips for organising and structuring the content of online training courses.
While, in most cases, it is impossible to design courses that would cater to individual student preferences, as designers, we should recognise the variety of learning styles and include elements to address their range.
In this blog post, I will explore ways of catering to different learning styles to create more inclusive learning environments that resonate with all students.
Action verbs tables help describe activities corresponding to the intended cognitive process and desired outcome. I this post I share an action verbs cheat sheet table to better describe activities corresponding to educational objectives at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
The revised Bloom’s taxonomy is can help you design better courses, write clearer outcomes and keep your learners engaged and motivated. Learn how!
Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework created by Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, to guide educators in structuring their teaching and creating meaningful learning experiences for students. Here we look at the basics and why it is important for educators to familiarise themselves with this taxonomy.
Learn how to write clear and impactful learning objectives for online courses. Set expectations, communicate the course's purpose, and align with instructional goals to empower learners.
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