Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

When This Book Is Most Useful

How This Book Is Organized

Whom This Book Can Benefit

What This Book Does Not Do

My Goal for This Book

The Author

CHAPTER 1 - Design with Learning in Mind

Learning in the Twenty-First Century

Advantages to Having a Course Online

How Web-Based Learning Is the Same as Classroom Learning

Learning Styles

Think “Learning,” Not “Teaching”

The Online Student’s Environment

How Web-Based Learning Is Different from Classroom Learning

Action Steps

CHAPTER 2 - Design with the Future in Mind

It’s Okay to Be Uncomfortable

The Future Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think

Creating the Outline

The Learning Guide

The Modules

File Systems

Managing Course Structure

Action Steps

CHAPTER 3 - Design with Assessment in Mind

Self-Assessment

Authentic Assessments

Quizzes

Teaching for the Long Term

Questions for First Time Web-Based Instructors

Action Steps

CHAPTER 4 - Design with Organization in Mind

Learning Guide Development

Elements of the Learning Guide

Prioritizing in Creating Your Course

Resource Gathering

Web-Based Aspects of the Course

Choosing the Most Important Topics

Instructional Guidance

Action Steps

CHAPTER 5 - Design with Content in Mind

Introduction to Chunking

How the Brain Processes Information - Cognitive Load

Chunking for a Text-Based Lecture or Content Presentation

Bridges

Active Learning Opportunities

Prioritizing Course Development and Revisions

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Chunking

Action Steps

CHAPTER 6 - Design with Process in Mind

Best Practices Develop a Schedule of Due Dates, and Stick to It

Design Using Someone Else’s Mind

Action Step - Step 23

CHAPTER 7 - Design with Navigation in Mind

Student Access to Module Components

Continuous Improvement

Documenting for Revisions

Link Rot

Where to Go from Here

Action Steps

What You Have Conquered

APPENDIX A - Forms

APPENDIX B - Action Steps

APPENDIX C - American Association for Higher Education’s Nine Principles of ...

APPENDIX D - Design and Development Tasks

Notes: Ideas for Application

References

Index

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Preface

Steven and his wife, Jenny, have three children: Drew, age five; Seth, age three; and Jessica, eighteen months. Steven, a police officer for the local police department, doesn’t earn enough at his job to make ends meet. The city has tried to increase police salaries, but voters have rejected the last three tax initiatives. So Steven took on an additional job just over two years ago when they found out their third child was on the way.

Steven and Jenny decided they both need an education to improve their financial situation. Jenny is now in school full time; it costs more for her to put the children in day care than she has been able to find a job making, so she doesn’t work. Steven took a third job, this one part time, to help pay for their tuition. Steven will get a raise when he completes his associate degree, which will allow them to afford the gas for him to commute to the university, which is forty miles away, one night a week. At the university he can eventually earn a four-year degree, which will lead to a better, higher-paying job that will support his family and allow them more stability. There is one problem: the only class he needs in order to graduate is biology with a lab; it meets five hours per week, and there is no way he can juggle all of his work schedules to be off that many hours each week. So far an entire semester and a summer have elapsed with no solution to this scheduling issue.

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