Course Structure

Course Structure

Scaffolding Learning in the Online Classroom

The online student population is becoming increasingly complex. Although people typically think of online students as older working professionals, Clinefelter, Aslanian, and Magda (2019) note that this population is beginning…

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Course Structure

Modular Course Design

The term module means different things to different people. For our purposes, modules are containers—organizational units or buckets of content—that you use to organize the components of your course. One…

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Course Structure

The Course Design Triangle

Course design is especially critical for online courses because you have to produce your course materials in advance. Once the course is live and students are enrolled, it’s much harder…

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