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1. Learn How to Build
an Awesome
E-Course
This presentation covers essential
elements for creating an e-course.
It considers the:
•
Learner
•
Course goals
•
Lessons & content
•
Multimedia
•
Delivery format
•
E-marketing
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2. Our learners
As instructors, we are responsible to
ensure our learners are happy

3. Who are they?
Before we start to design a course, we need
to ask ourselves these questions:
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Who are our learners, their demographics?
Where do they live and work? What is their
field of employment?
What are their goals for this course?
What are their fears or frustrations?
What is their learning style?
What type of technology will they be using?

4. At a distance
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When our learners
engage with our
online content they
are alone learning at
a distance.
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We aren't there
when they work
through the content
so we need to add
measures to make it
successful for them.
Distance learners have certain
needs, such as needing their
e-course to be personalized
and access support at
anytime.

5. Goal setting
Creating course goals is like using a funnel
to bring all the fragmented ideas and
content into succinct learning points.

6. Reason #1 for goals
Don't confuse our learners
There is a best practice known in the
teaching world:
 Tell
them what you are going to teach them
 Teach them it
 Review what you have taught them

7. Reason #1 for goals
 Unless
we are teaching experts who have
the acquired knowledge of a particular
field and can assimilate new concepts
and facts through their complex thinking
patterns, we need to spell out what we
are teaching...
 and teach it.

8. Reason #2 for goals
 If
we are teaching some topic or skill, we
probably know it well.
 The people taking the course are novices;
thus, the reason they are learning from us.
 By focusing on what needs to be taught
(versus what we want to share) keeps our
course on a focused path, and our brains
in a teaching mode.

9. The lessons
Each goal and its subgoal become
the title and focus for each lesson

10. The content
 Compose
content for each goal and
subgoal and no more.
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Remember, we must teach essentials and
not get lost in our expert-level thoughts with
possible consequences of talking over our
learners' heads, over teaching.
 Content
can be presented in any form:
Text, images, video, audio lectures, live
webinars, slides, etc.

11. Engage them
The point of a learning activity is allow
learners to stop, reflect on the lesson,
and test their understanding.

12. Example
Applying learning activities online
so that people can engage on
their own is a bit tricky but it can
be done.
See the different activities I
applied to my e-course, albeit
this was a very interactive course.
Video example of learning
activities

13. Using multimedia
 Ensure
you provide quality multimedia
 The least tolerated is poor audio
 Capture the image or sound with quality
equipment because you can only edit to
a point in order to increase its quality
afterwards.
 Invest in good equipment and editors of
your fav multimedia

14. Most popular media
• Training videos
• Vlogging
• Narration
However …
Know that you don't have to handle all the
technical aspects of your e-course. Find help.

15. Well designed learning
can be delivered
in any format
Delivery formats
More easy
More complex
 Documents
 Webpages
 Emails
 Blogs
 Slides
 Learning
management
system

16. E-marketing
it easy to purchase your
e-course by setting up a
shopping cart service
 Stay in touch with your
customers by setting up an
email campaign.
 Learn great tips on marketing
your e-course via the web.
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 Make
e-junkie
Aweber
Nathalie
Lussier

17. Learn more about
creating awesome
e-courses
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