Creating Ecourses for Dummies - Paperback

by Amanda Rosenzweig (Author)

Design and build online courses that you will deploy with joy

Need to create a course for your learners and don't know where to begin? Creating eCourses For Dummies will guide you through the process of creating engaging content around objectives and a solid instructional plan. In this book, you'll find a feasible plan for designing and creating a course in a short time period, while leveraging technology, community building (if desired), accessibility, and engagement. Creating eCourses For Dummies encourages you to follow along chapter by chapter, creating a course as you go.

• Make the transition to online teaching and create a course quickly, step by step
• Choose the technology platforms that work best for you, or make the most of the ones you're required to use
• Leverage existing content and content from other resources to build your course
• Tailor your content to your audience and cater to different learning preferences and styles

This is an excellent Dummies guide for new and veteran teachers, corporate trainers, entrepreneurs, small business owners, those with side hustles, and anyone else who needs a crash course on developing eCourses. This book will support you from beginning to end.

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Your starting point for online instruction

Online courses, or eCourses, become more popular--and more necessary--every year. Creating eCourses For Dummies is a beginner-friendly guide for anyone who needs to quickly design and build an effective eCourse. You'll identify learning objectives and create content that meets accessibility requirements. You'll even get hands-on practice putting your own course together. Expert tips help you streamline the course creation process and keep tabs on learners. Prepare for launch, with this intro to eCourses.

Inside...

• Use your existing materials as content in a new eCourse
• Work with different platforms
• Create solid learning paths
• Locate useful resources
• Build effective assessments
• Storyboard your course
• Cater to diverse learners

Author Biography

Amanda Rosenzweig, PhD, is the Assistant Dean of STEM at Delgado Community College, Canvas administrator, a meritorious professor of biology, and the director of Science Teacher Technology Training. She also created Teach and Learn/eProfessor, a multi-course series that focuses on online course development.