How to Teach Online: Designing Distance Courses

Topic outline

• How to Teach Online: Designing Distance Courses

  

  Introduction

  
  

  This course will cover guidance, examples and good practices for the design and delivery of online learning solutions. The course focuses on adult learners and professional learning; however, the content is generalizable to younger students. Adapted from the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)’s eLearning Academy Methodology manual, this course focuses on instructional design best practices using an established design framework. 

  
  
  
  

  Learning outcomes:

  • Explain the design, development and delivery of activities that are specific to online learning
  • Explain online learning solutions suitable for development contexts characterized by technology constraints, such as limited hardware capabilities and low-bandwidth Internet connections.
  • Understand how to develop online learning materials
  • Locate online learning resources for yourself and your students

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  How it works

  • This course consists of information for you to read, view, or listen to, as well as practice exercises and assignments, to help you learn about the topic. 
  • When you are finished with all the content on each page, click the arrow on the bottom right corner to move to the next page.
  • There is a progress bar at the bottom that will show your progress through the course.
  • When you have completed the course, you will have the option to generate a certificate of completion for download.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Module 1. Getting started
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• Module 2. What is needed to develop online learning?
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• Module 3. Analysing learning needs
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• Module 4: Organizing your content
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• Module 5: Defining delivery, instructional and evaluation methods
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• Module 6: The process of content development
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• Module 7: Using instructional techniques for content development
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• Module 8: Courseware development
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• Module 9: Learning platforms
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• Survey

• Course Certificate