Tips for Success in Web Course Design: A Few Things I Have Learned Cathy A. Simpson Technical Application Center
Tips for Success : Integrate & Collaborate Identify course goals & objectives Identify strategies you know help students achieve goals & objectives use technology to extend strategies or create new ones
Tips for Success : Integrate & Collaborate Read the Web for ideas examples help
Tips for Success : Integrate & Collaborate Recognize & explore differences in distance & traditional learning Process issues Resource issues Communication issues
Tips for Success : Integrate & Collaborate Establish collaboration with others VCCS CourseWare Grants Campus CITGs & TLTRs TAC/ELI Institutes Mentoring
Tips for Success : Integrate & Collaborate Factor in sessions to learn software needed to complete project Web editorsDigital camera ScannerPlug-ins
Tips for Success: Integrate & Plan Develop site by storyboarding or flow charting to create visual of plan purpose audience content sequence of content
Tips for Success: Focus on Learner Design site to be learner-driven to promote active learning through discussion forums & listervs webquests
Tips for Success: Focus on Learner Design site to be learner-driven to promote active learning through online collaborative writing self-directed learning units electronic journals and portfolios student designed Web pages
Tips for Success: Design to Construct Meaning Develop consistent navigation tools Use common color schemes yellow & green easier to perceive red and blue difficult
Tips for Success: Design to Construct Meaning Use upper & lower case letters Organize logical sequence of pages Use point size of at least 30 Incorporate visuals to clarify meaning
Tips for Success: Design to Use Visuals Incorporate visual into making meaning clarification emphasis focus navigation
Tips for Success: Design for Readability Use Basic Design Principles keep visual simple leave lots of white space keep visual organized create path for eye make something dominant divide space in interesting way
Tips for Success: Include the Basics Include some basics general course information netiquette guidelines tips for success technology how-to’s resource links Use contextual links only