Exercise

Basically, the online course can be designed as:

direct instructional course (teacher-centred—passively just delivering content) or
interactive, activity-based learning

TASK 1 - BUILD A DIRECT INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE

Direct instructional course is usually used for skill-based course.

This type of online course consist of two components:

STRUCTURE (OUTLINE)—Transform your ideas and materials into actionable steps.
CONTENT: Present the content in the form of video, audio or text.

TASK 1.1 - Browse online courses on these platforms and preview some of the courses:

Udemy
Skillshare
Linkedin Learning

TASK 1.2 - Let's start building this type of online course or teaching module.

We will be using Google Sites to build the course.

To build the structure or the outline of the course, we will refer to my course:

DIY Rapid Video Creation for Everyone and Every Purpose

Prepare the outline or the structure of the course:

A descriptive title
One line concise description
What you will learn (learning objectives or learning outcomes)
Requirements/Pre-requisite
Detail description of the course
Course content
About the instructor

Prepare the content

Content is usually presented in the form of video, audio or text—but mainly video. Therefore, for a DIY online course creation, it is highly recommended for course instructor to acquire the skill to create a video.

I'm offering to all the participants of this workshop my two online courses on video creation:

TASK 2 - BUILD AN INTERACTIVE COURSE

As the name implies, this type of online course is designed with a learner-centred approach, i.e., the learners are actively involved DOING the activities designed to construct the knowledge and enable the learners to CREATE their own meaning.

This type of online course consist of three components:

STRUCTURE (OUTLINE)—Transform your ideas and materials into actionable steps.
CONTENT—Present the content in the form of video, audio or text.
ACTIVITY—The activities are carefully designed to align with the intended learning outcomes.

Let's explore the following courses first and study how the courses are structured and how the activities are integrated seamlessly with the content.

Google Sites

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