Choosing the Right Instructional Strategies for Your Course Format

Designing an online training involves more than just knowing your content and establishing your learning goals and outcomes. Once you've established what your learners need to achieve, the next challenge is selecting the right instructional strategies to help them get there.

February 4, 2025

Instructional Strategies for Various course formats.
14 Ways to Teach Online.

Choosing the right instructional strategy for each course format can make learning engaging, flexible, and impactful. This post explores 14 strategies tailored to formats from blended learning to bootcamps, all designed to help learners connect deeply with course material and achieve their objectives.

December 17, 2024

Stage 2: Course Design: Moving from Research to Action

Designing your course content is a critical step that bridges planning and creation. Learn how to refine your offering, organize course structure, and create engaging content that delivers real value to learners.

December 10, 2024

Learning Outcomes and Marketing – How Incorrect language Can Sabotage Your Course and Marketing

Don't let inaccurate language around learning outcomes sabotage your course! Learning outcomes and marketing are linked. This post explores common pitfalls in writing learning outcomes and how they can impact your eLearning and marketing.

December 3, 2024

Boosting Course Sales: Using Learning Goals and Outcomes as Marketing Tools

Boost your course marketing with well-defined learning goals, objectives, and outcomes. Discover how to use these powerful tools to create compelling messages, set clear expectations, and showcase the real value of your course, helping you stand out in a competitive market.

November 5, 2024

What are Instructional Strategies: From Theory to Practice

An instructional strategy is more than a teaching method—it's a blueprint for designing engaging and effective learning experiences. Like a well-drawn plan for building a house, an instructional strategy guides every aspect of the learning journey, from choosing the right tools to assessing outcomes. Whether you're developing a complex course or a quick training module, understanding the nuances of instruction can help.

October 29, 2024

From Learning Goals to Outcomes: Effectively Communicating the Benefits of Your Training

Discover the differences between learning goals, objectives, and outcomes, and how clearly defining them can enhance your course design and marketing efforts. Learn how to effectively communicate the value of your training, set expectations, and attract your ideal learners.

October 24, 2024

Learning Outcomes Done Right: 9 Common Mistakes. Examples, solutions, and impact on your marketing.

Avoid common pitfalls when writing learning goals, objectives, and outcomes! This post explores 9 mistakes that can hinder your eLearning course design and marketing communication, and offers solutions to ensure your course delivers clear, measurable results that align with both learning and business goals.

October 21, 2024

Action Verbs: Get the cheat sheet to write better learning outcomes

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.

September 5, 2023

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Explained: Levels, Sample Outcomes and Activities

The revised Bloom’s taxonomy is can help you design better courses, write clearer outcomes and keep your learners engaged and motivated. Learn how!

August 22, 2023

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