This document provides 10 tips for developing an effective online course, including enrolling in an online course yourself first, setting clear goals, developing your own content to facilitate easy updates, incorporating interaction and discussion forums, experimenting with social media, addressing different learner skills, keeping content updated, assigning small readable portions, considering learner diversity and connectivity, and piloting the course with peers for feedback.

1. By Carina P. Soares

2. 1 – Experiment. Enroll in an online
course. Perceive it as a teacher and
a student.
2 – Set clear goals for yourself.
It will be easier to establish
objectives to your learners.

3. 3 – Develop the content yourself.
It will be easier to update.
4 – Interaction is fundamental.
Vary the activities.
Make use of discussion forums.

4. 5 – Try social media. Feel how it
works for yourself and how it
would help your learners benefit
from it.
6 – Reach all your students by
addressing different learner skills.

5. 7 – Keep you content updated.
8 – Assign small readings.
Keep your students focused.

6. 9 – Consider the diversity of learners
and their access to connectivity.
10 – Pilot your course with a small
group of peers. Adjust material and
goals if necessary.

7. Credits
Photographer:Carina P. Soares
Model: Victor Jatobá Botelho
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