As you begin to plan for your online class, ask yourself: What do I want my students to be able to do with the content I have provided in videos, readings, and other resources?
Content for online courses can be presented in any format such as PowerPoint presentation, PDF document, infographic, E-book, audio podcast and video. Most online courses offered by various popular platforms, however, used video as a medium of choice to present the content.
In a one-hour online course/module, at least half of the content is presented in the form of video. Therefore, for a DIY online course creation, it is highly recommended for course instructor to acquire the skill to create a video (see Unit 6.4.2 on video creation).
Let's start by preparing a slide presentation using PowerPoint (of course, you can use Keynote or Google Slide as well). Let's go to the next section to look at the process of designing slide presentation for online course.