The document provides guidelines for designing effective online courses, including: 1) Ensuring student engagement by defining learning objects and adopting strategies to gain student attention. Teacher presence is also important through interaction, feedback, and encouragement. 2) Considering practical suggestions such as using graphics, animations and interactive elements while avoiding excessive text. Discussions and activities should be motivating, engaging, and purposeful. 3) Ensuring quality by following standards and rubrics from organizations like Sloan-C and Quality Matters which address elements like learning effectiveness, accessibility, and faculty/student satisfaction. Resources for online course design are also referenced.

1. Course Design for Non-Designers SLATE June 17, 2009 College of Lake County Paul Heydenburg, Northeastern Illinois University Ken Sadowski, University of Chicago Michael Sukowski, Concordia University Chicago

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