Learned the importance of simplicity coupled with intellectual engagement.
The Characteristics of Quality Online Courses will improve the process of designing and creating programs, with the responsibility to provide the content and strategies for a efficient learning.
Showing that you dedicated time to create the the online course will help maintain integrity and attention.
Structural integrity and navigation simplicity set us up for success
Navigating through the modules with ease and easy navigation through the simulations are a great bonus!
The quality of the online program combined with student interactions equals greater student learning.
Characteristics of quality online courses include navigational ease and learner-focused. These can be accomplished with curriculum and design that are simple in layout, but challenge the student to use critical thinking skills and engage with other students via the internet.
Quality online courses need to have structural integrity and navigational simplicity to ensure an enriched learning experience
The design of online courses must be done following certain parameters that seek to facilitate the user experience. This implies putting into practice a simple structure that is consistent with the learning objectives.
Online courses are designed to help learners outside of the traditional brick and mortar. Courses should be organized and broken down into lessons, where the students have the ease of navigating through the courses. The goal is to educate the students with information that allows them to be able toprogress educationally, they should be able to interact with their teachers and peers, and content taught, should push them to critically think and problem solve.
The course should be easy to navigate and well structured.
Online learning is gaining in popularity and it is not going away any time soon.
Having a welllaid out navigation page for the students is good. Useing modules to go through the course is a great way to do it.
One of the most important aspects of online education is the isimplicity and organization of said course.
I learned the importance of interaction between learners and other learners and learners and instructors is important for retention. I will look to include more of these activities in future courses.
I think that I will implement more interactive media components into my subsequent coursework. That may take some creativity on my part but the reasoning bechind this idea from the module is sound.
I learned about the evolution of distance learning from correspondence courses to online learning. I intend on applying the characteristics of structural integrity, navigational simplicity, active-learner centered learning, and intellectual interaction to my course development to ensure my students get quality learning material.
Online courses can be difficult to masterfully design because you have to account for so many personality types, learning styles, levels of interaction, and possible questions that might arise even before the student finishes reading/performing the material. Having someone highly skilled in problem solving and critical thinking will make this easier, but it is hardly foolproof.
Havong modules can really help support the learning process for the course by having it organized. There is a level of focus I like with using modules for the students we support.
It is not only important to add a strong foundation it is important to provide students with the ability to interact with all contact so they are applying their concepts and not just clicking through the material and not retaining anything.
