Designing for learning: What are the essential features of an effective online course? | Zendy

Allison Brown | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Designing for learning: What are the essential features of an effective online course?

Author(s) -

Allison Brown

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

australasian journal of educational technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1449-5554

pISSN - 1449-3098

DOI - 10.14742/ajet.1926

Subject(s) - instructional design , online course , online learning , computer science , distance education , mathematics education , course (navigation) , educational technology , process (computing) , multimedia , psychology , engineering , aerospace engineering , operating system

How do online courses differ from traditional university courses? What are the new learning demands made on students in online courses? Which particular design features optimise the teaching and learning process in an online delivery mode? These were the questions explored in a collaborative course design project involving an economics lecturer and the instructional designer at Murdoch University. Emerging from the project is the fully online course Economic Thought and Controversy , together with an instructional design template. This template is now being applied to other courses in the discipline with the aim of transferring the whole economics programme to online delivery in 1998. This paper describes the pedagogical rationale of the design template.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research