A Guide to Online Course Design: Strategies for Student Success

This book helps faculty and professional staff build quality online courses by focusing on quality standards in instructional design and transparency in learning outcomes in the design of online courses. It includes effective instructional strategies to motivate online learners, help them become more self-directed, and develop academic skills to persist and successfully complete a program of study online. It also includes a more in-depth understanding of instructional design principles to support faculty as they move their face-to-face courses to the online environment. The focus on learning outcomes also makes this book of particular use to institutions to ensure that all courses developed, whether face-to-face or online, clearly demonstrate learning outcomes. The focus on quality standards ensures online courses meet the needs of the online learner population as well as the needs of internal and external constituencies for distance education initiatives.