Developing Online Content and Instruction

As an online learning professional – either an instructor or content developer (or perhaps both), it is important to stay abreast of the key trends in the industry and to understand basic online content development principles and foundational methods and models. Just like traditional development of instruction, online content develop follows sound strategies so that learners actually learn what they set out to learn and do this in an efficient way. With online learning, there are many tools and technologies used to support learning. This course is designed to introduce instructors to the elearning industry as well as the process and concepts of basic online course development and instruction.

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

• Describe current online learning trends.
• Develop a plan for keeping current as an online learning professional
• Follow sound content development models for online courses
• Address learner needs in content development for online learning
• Use innovative strategies to monitor student success and progress
• Engage learners using multiple strategies in an online course

This course is 1 of 6 titles offered under the Developing Online Content and Instruction program.