Are Online Courses as Effective as In-Person Education?
It turns out there's a better question you can ask that will provide your students with an optimal experience.
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 [...]
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.
Comparing Video Hosting, Transcribing, and Captioning Tools
We consider the pros and cons of some of the most popular video hosting, transcribing, and captioning services for online courses.
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.
Designing Online Courses for Different Learning Preferences
How can instructional designers serve students' different learning preferences while creating standardized courses? Here's one approach that offers the best of both worlds.
How to Make Online Learning Easy for First-Time eLearners
Learning in a new environment can be difficult. These tips will help instructional designers develop a new student orientation process to ensure the success of first-time eLearners.
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.
