How to Help Struggling Adult Learners
How can you help an online student who's struggling? These tips will help you improve your students' learning outcomes while avoiding some awkward situations.
How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness
Learn the simple 4-step process for evaluating how effective your courses or training modules really are, and how to spot problems in their delivery.
How to Create Effective Test Questions
Since online learning often separates teachers from learners across time and distance, we rely on evaluations – in the form of tests, quizzes and assessments – to judge each student's successful comprehension of the content (and to judge how well the course designers presented their information). But what makes a good test question? Is it [...]
How to Maximize Collaboration in Instructional Design
When it comes to project management, finding smart ways to keep your team focused and on schedule is what leads to creating a finished product that your whole team can be proud of.
Best Practices for Improving Online Courses Using Student Feedback
We offer 4 tips for getting the most useful feedback from your students, and 4 more tips for using that feedback to continually improve your online courses.
Quality Control: Best Practices in Online Course Design and Delivery
Here are some best practices to help you integrate quality control standards into your digital course design and delivery.
Best Practices for Online Course Design
By following these instructional design best practices, you'll be prepared to add rich media and innovative design in a meaningful way that adds to your learners' experience, rather than complicating or distracting.
How Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Can Make Your Online Courses Better
See how Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction can help instructional designers create courses and training that are optimally designed to meet their learners' needs.
Why the Best Instructional Designers Make Regular Course Updates
Are you sure your online courses are up-to-date, engaging, and relevant? There are plenty of reasons that educational content gets stale or outdated -- and several tips for avoiding it.
How to Improve Learning Retention with Contextual Feedback
For students to benefit the most from online courses, instructional designers should include appropriate contextual and corrective feedback. Here are some examples of feedback that works.
