And Finally A Baker’s Dozen Ideas for Creating an Online Course

Authors

Michael Simonson, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Column

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

distance education, distance learning, education, education, higher education, online courses

Publication Title

Distance Learning

ISSN

9781648021695

Volume

17

Issue/No.

1

Abstract

Excerpt

Most likely, everyone reading this column in Distance Learning journal has been asked how to quickly develop an online course, or tasked to actually redesign a course for online delivery. For those who have taught and learned in the world of distance education this process is easy, straightforward, even if time-consuming. One issue for new online designers or instructors is that much of the process for converting a traditional course to an online one is not intuitive, and in some respects is counterintuitive. For example, the idea of chunking instruction into single concept building blocks is an example of an organization strategy for online courses that may not be understood by the traditional teacher most comfortable giving a 50-minute lectures.

NSUWorks Citation

Simonson, Michael, "And Finally A Baker’s Dozen Ideas for Creating an Online Course" (2020). Faculty Articles. 506.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_facarticles/506

ResearchID/ORCID ID

0000-0003-3478-7879