There are many community-building benefits of holding live online meetings in your course. Learn how to make the most of these sessions.Links mentioned in the episode:Pocket PD Guide: Humanizing by Michelle Pacansky BrockThe Impact Of Tea

Ep 12 Reflecting for Meaning [Designing an Online Course]

Jul 17th, 2020 8m 48s

Reflection is making meaning of our experiences. It allows students to review their understanding, make connections, and draw conclusions about what they learned and how it applies to them. That’s big stuff. In this episode, we look at ways to

Ep 11 Generating Your Own Answers [Designing an Online Course]

Jul 12th, 2020 7m 7s

Generating your own answers to questions is much more powerful than selecting an answer from a list. It engages your brain differently. Take advantage of how the brain works. This episode gives some examples of how use this design strategy in

Ep 10 Choose Learning As Needed [Designing an Online Course]

Jun 26th, 2020 6m 12s

Microlearning is breaking larger topics into very small chunks, maybe a 2-3-minute video, an infographic, or a page of text. Personalization is when learners are able to move through the material as they see fit. The two together are powerful p

Ep 9 Learning Preferences

Jun 16th, 2020 8m 20s

People have preferred ways of learning. As a course creator, you need to understand the learning preferences and how to leverage them. This episode explores how you can design to meet your learners preferences and why you should. The acti

Ep 8 Adult Learning Principles

Jun 7th, 2020 11m 40s

Adult learners are very different than K-12 learners. Our lives are full of more responsibility than most of us imagined we would have. That's why we have to look at adult learners differently than younger learners.This episode explores the se

Ep 7 Spaced Learning

May 29th, 2020 10m 15s

Spaced learning is a learning strategy that takes advantage of how the brain works. As a course designer, you can take advantage of spaced learning to help your students retain what they learned. Ep 2. Learning ActivitiesThe activity for t

Ep 6 Blogs

May 22nd, 2020 14m 36s

Can blogging create community in an online course? The short answer is yes, if you design it that way. This episode looks at ways to use blogging in an online course as both a learning activity and a way to build community between your students

Ep 5 Discussion Board 3 Challenges

May 15th, 2020 12m 11s

Discussion board challenges are regular activities that help move the learning forward, allow students to practice, and develop community support. That's a lot of wins for one learning activity. The activity for this episode is to come up wi

Ep 4 Discussion Boards 2 Open-ended Questions

May 8th, 2020 10m 21s

Using open-ended questions on discussion board can give you insights into student thinking. The trick is to ask the right questions to get what you need as the instructor.The activity for this episode is to write two open-ended discussion boar

Ep. 3 - Discussion Boards 1 Introductions

May 1st, 2020 10m 33s

Discussion boards are the heavy lifters of community building in an online course. This episode focuses on introductions and is the first in a three-episode series on using discussion boards effectively in an online course.This episode's activ

Ep. 2 - Learning Activities

Apr 24th, 2020 11m 52s

The more we know about how people learn and how the brain works, the more we can leverage learning activities to make the learning stick. This episode gives an overview of what learning activities are and how they are important to learning. Th

Ep. 1 - Course Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes

Apr 17th, 2020 10m 28s

In this episode we talk about the difference between course goals, the objectives that help you achieve the course goal, and the specific learning outcomes that make up each objective. This is effectively outlining your course. This episode's

Laura Creates Courses Trailer

Apr 15th, 2020 1m 50s

Who is Laura and what does she now about creating online courses? This trailer answers those questions and invites you to subscribe and learn. LauraCreatesCourses.comLaura Creates Courses YouTube channel

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