Writing materials for online college courses is not easy. At first glance, you would think that you simply take the teaching materials that have been used in a classroom and put them onto a web site. In fact the reality is very far distant from this.
Obviously you have to start with good factual materials, but designing a learning package means that you have to work out the best way to present these materials so that they can be understood and absorbed by the student. You have to make things very interesting because it's so easy to get bored with online materials, and you have to make assissments interact with your students so that they can work out what they have learned and what they need to go back and learn.
On top of this you also need to think about the other parts of online learning - using email, messaging, chat rooms and how to do online collaboration. All in all, online packages represent a real investment in time, effort and money on the part of the college you are studying with.
# posted by Mary @ 10:45 PM
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