A well laid out and organized online learning system that allows for different type of learners to be successful.
Student's need a course that's easy to follow and understand when a teacher and peers are not physically avaiable to help. Having the breakdown of learning modules into lesseons helps the student's understand and follow the course content. Navigation buttons also another way to allow ease of access to the student's.
It would be important when creating online lessons to break the lesson down into modules, lessons and topics, and be sure to create links so that it is easy for the user/learner to navigate. Otherwise, they could become frustrated.
You need all four charactereristics to design the best online instructions which will inspirer the student to learn at higher levels.
Zach Bernal
first the student must have internet access and a reliable laptop or desktop and must have some skill to understand how to navigate on the computer. This must be a priorty with students and by the instructor teaching the courses to reduce stress to the students.
Second the modules are great so students understand each of the modules will help the students to navigate through the courses in a easy way so they do not get discouraged and having studente drop.
My takeaway is the student's first impression. If they see an intuitive sturucture, they are inclined to stay engaged.
This is a helpful way to think about how I will tackle online learning in the fall. I like the idea of thinking in terms of modules, lessons, and topics. This will then allow me to break down the ways in which my students will interact with the material and may help them with navigation. My school system is using TEAMS and my courses for CTE are PLTW biomedical which has it own online platform. If just find it difficult to translate one learning platform to another when the PLTW platform does not make it easy to copy documents and activities. I also teach one course of 9th graders and they have great difficulties navigating through two different learning platforms. I am hoping this course will give me some ideas. I also should say that neither of the learning platforms that I use connect to my school grade book so I must take all grades and input them into another online program.
I learned that navigational simplicity refers to the ability of an e-learning to move through the course accessing notes, links, and other features of the class.
I learned the objectives for the course, and that online courses need to be navigable, interactive, and engaging. I could not access any of the Flash player content.
I learned that having quality media combined with quality interaction equates to better engagement and retention of information.
The course covers various learning activities that are supported in an e-learning environment and describes the typical components of an online course.
Quality online courses should intergrate btween the following four areas: Structural Integrity, Navigational Simplicity, Active Learner- Centered Learning, and Intellectual Interaction.
Online courses must be well structured and allow participants to interact with one another.
The explanation of how the organization and ease of navigation help the student make so much sense and is really eye-opening.
The organization of the course is a huge asset. The content should be broken down into modules that are well structured and sequenced so that the students can learn it in small segments at a time.
I learned about the structure of how online course. I plan on using this framework in the future to build online content for my courses in the event of virtual learning days.
Courses have modules, modules have topics; topics have lessons.
I, further, learned the importance of incorporating multi-media into learning experiences. Also, students will retain more by clicking for interaction, rather than simply clicking and viewing. I will add additional activities to stimulate student retention of content.
Like all good lessons, require much time to prepare and carefully understand what key ideas the instructor wants the student to learn and understand and more importantly the instructor must be sure that the student has all the background information in order to use the new ideas that will be presented to successful comprehend the content as the course progresses in the course, The challenge for myself is to learn these platform and navigate between them online.
I would follow the recommended structure to help student to easily find the modules and lesson as required. I would provide some navaigational simplicity to help the learner navigate through the course by including links, calender, overview, notes, assignments and location. Active learners would have opportunties to reinfore their learning. Intellectual interaction opportunties would provide the learner to contribute thier knowledge to help with high levels of retention.
use asynchronous chat for student to submit research they have found for classmates to review.
