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Best practices for writing courses.
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  • STEP 4: Visual Design Matters

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    Posted 19 Feb 2010 11:19 AM
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    Visual Design: How Will The Course Look? Tom Kuhkmann - my hero in course design and development - recently posted this in his blog. His blog is excellent and I highly recommend anyone who develops courses to subscribe to it: http://www.articulate.com...

  • STEP 3: Edit and Write Content

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    Posted 28 Dec 2009 10:39 AM
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    Hello friends. Welcome back to my blog. We continue our quest to write the perfect e-learning course. At this point, we are on step 3: the actual writing or editing of content for your online course. After you have organized all your content and are ready...

  • STEP #2: Organize Content

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    Posted 18 Nov 2009 3:59 PM
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    The next step in writing your course involves organizing your existing content into a usable form for an e-learning course. When you go to write an online course, it is critical that you understand the concept of chunking. Chunking means breaking up the...

  • Making Your Courses Interactive and Engaging

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    Posted 17 Oct 2009 12:15 PM
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    Hi folks, It was great meeting many of you in New Orleans this month. For those of you who were not able to make it, I did a presentation at our annual conference on How to Make Your Courses Interactive and Engaging. Here is a link to this presentation...

  • Tip of the Week #11: Step 1 continued - Planning

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    Posted 5 Aug 2009 8:35 AM
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    Writing effective learning objectives is a critical part of planning. Learning objectives (LOs) should focus on student performance . They should answer the question… " what is it that your students should be able to do at the end of the course...

  • Tip of the Week #10: Step 1 - Planning

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    Posted 14 Jun 2009 9:09 PM
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    STEP 1: PLANNING The first step in writing your online course is planning. Planning involves many things including completing a needs analysis, identifying your goals and objectives, and writing your learning objectives and course description. What is...

  • Tip of the Week #9 - 5 Steps to Writing Online Courses

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    Posted 31 May 2009 7:41 PM
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    Over the next 5 weeks I will go over the 5 steps you will take to write an online course. Below I will briefly mention each of the steps and then go into detail about each of them in the ensuing weeks. 1. Plan: When planning for you course you need to...

  • Tip of the Week #8: Some Resources for Learning About E-learning

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    Posted 13 May 2009 9:13 PM
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    Instructional Design.... or Storytelling? If you have to choose between learning instructional design or storytelling, believe it or not you are better off going with storytelling. Do you know why? Because good storytellers engage learners. This doesn’t...

  • Tip of the Week #7: Common Test Question Mistakes

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    Posted 3 May 2009 11:28 AM
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    I recently came across an excellent blog post by Tom Kuhlman and wanted to share it with you. 5 Common Quiz Question Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) We are all guilty of making at least 1 of these mistakes when we create test questions - but information...

  • Tip of the Week #6: Making Connections for the Learner

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    Posted 20 Apr 2009 9:42 AM
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    In order to ensure a successful course that learners easily understand, you must make clear connections throughout the content and include clear goals, learning objectives, and instruction. Here are 3 important ways to do this: 1. Identify for the learner...

  • Tip of the Week #5: What the heck is "chunking"?

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    Posted 7 Apr 2009 10:54 AM
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    What the Heck is Chunking? When you go to write an online course, it is critical that you understand the concept of chunking. What do I mean by chunking in this case? Definition of Chunking : Chunking is a principle that applies to the effective communication...

  • Tip of the Week #4: What Are the Differences Between Elearning and Traditional Learning?

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    Posted 26 Mar 2009 12:23 PM
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    How Is the E-learning Environment Different? To start with, e-learners don’t actually read when they are taking courses online. Instead, they scan. Studies show that 79% of people scan the web pages instead of reading word for word. So it is easier...

  • Are You Managing Your Email or Is Your Email Managing You?

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    Posted 3 Mar 2009 2:06 PM
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    Are You Managing Your Email or Is Your Email Managing You? Yes, I know, this is not a tip or trick about writing e-learning. So, allow me to get a bit off topic here and talk about something we all have to deal with every day - that dreaded e-mail! Did...

  • Tip of the Week #3: Using Readability Scoring to Improve Your Writing in E-learning Courses

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    Posted 19 Feb 2009 3:31 PM
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    Exerpts of the following blog post are taken from Cathy Moore's outstanding e-learning blog called ( Posted: 07 Oct 2008): Making change: ideas for lively elearning from Cathy Moore To see the complete Cathy Moore post go to: http://blog.cathy-moore...

  • Tip of the Week #2: Writing a Better Course By Shedding Some Words

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    Posted 9 Feb 2009 6:25 PM
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    If It Doesn’t Help Meet the Objective, Take it Out of the Course! How do you determine what to keep and what to leave out of your course? These three questions can help you make that determination. 1. What’s the learner supposed to do? Design...
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