Distance Learning Course Design

Instructional Design for Distance Learning Courses

Download a portable version of this section of the website: Guide to Instructional Design for Distance Delivery Courses (this information is included in the ITV Interactive Videoconferencing Course Guide and the Internet Course Design and Development Guide)

Whether you’re interested in converting a traditional course to an Internet or ITV course, or developing an entirely new distance learning course, this module offers useful distance education course design tips. Designing a successful distance education course requires clearly articulated goals and objectives, heavy emphasis on interactivity and a serious commitment to assessments and evaluations.

Goals and Objectives: This unit offers tips on designing distance learning course content in accordance with sound instructional design principles and highlights the technical issues specific to distance education.

Interaction: Sustaining meaningful interactivity poses one of the greatest challenges in the distance learning environment. This unit provides ideas and links to free software that will help boost and maintain interaction and class participation.

Assessments and Evaluations: This unit discusses various assessment and evaluation strategies for use in distance education courses, and also provides links to distance learning sample evaluations.

Distance Learning Course Design Module Goals and Objectives

Goals

Provide instructional design strategies, interactive teaching strategies and techniques for the distance education environment

Objectives

After completing the Course Design Module activities and self-assessments, you will be able to do the following:

Using the information provided on the NETnet website, identify at least three broad goals and three specific objectives for your course.
Create a single topic online discussion group using QuickTopic and invite at least two people to join the discussion.
Using Homemaker Online templates, create a two-paragraph basic biographical web page.
Using HotPotatoes or WebQuestions2 software create at least three interactive quizzes that have at least two questions each.
Using the links provided on the NETnet website, review existing evaluation surveys. Create a course evaluation survey with at least 10 questions.

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