Advanced E-learning Strategies...The Halfway Point!

Greetings blog world! I am halfway finished with my current classes towards my Master's degree, and I think I have about 9 hours left.  Here is my currently for today:

Very interesting I know!!! :)

Now on to the good stuff...
The remainder of this week's post will be dedicated to the guidelines when designing an online course. I am currently doing a group project in which we are actually designing an online course.

It can be very simple to just design an online course just to be designing, but there are some guidelines that will help you have a more effective course. The most important part of designing the course I think is knowing the needs of the client you are designing for and knowing who the potential audience will be. This will help you become aware of what will be most effective.  For example, if you have an audience of high schoolers the design would most likely be more flashy and "cool" than a course for adults who have full time jobs. The more flashy course will be more attractive to the younger audience.

This is not the only guideline when designing a course, but I think it is indeed one of the most important. I hope you enjoy my brief post today! See you next week!