Online learning involves three core elements - content, context, and community. Quality multimedia content is key. Context refers to assignments that require applying knowledge in different situations. Community aims to foster meaningful interaction between learners through information sharing, feedback, and motivation. Teachers need to create engaging online content and facilitate access to audio/video lectures through captioning to support asynchronous and synchronous learning. Materials should be accessible, readable in multiple formats with inclusive writing. To help students focus, clearly outline tasks and use reminders for activities/due dates while breaking classes into shorter segments with questions. Motivation can be increased by discussing a course's relevance and applicability.

2. Core Elements Of Online Learning
Process : The Three C’s
CONTENT: Quality is
the Key.
Full range of
multimedia content
from video and
audio, to text and
photographs,
illustrations or even
comics.
CONTEXT: Refers to
Assignments.
Requires Learners
to apply their
knowledge in
different contexts.
COMMUNITY: Aim
at fostering
meaningful
interaction
between learners.
It provides
information,
inspiration,
feedback and
motivation.

3. MAKE DISCUSSIONS MEANINGFUL.
Brainstorming sessions where students present a variety of ways of
approaching a topic or a problem
Critiques where students challenge a particular argument or
interpretation
Diagnoses where students deconstruct a problem
Sharing activities where students reveal their own experiences or
perceptions

4. RECORD LECTURES, VIDEOS.
Availability of uninterrupted internet to access online classes has been a
challenge for most students.
Future online classroom will take more structured approach in terms of
content delivery.
Teachers need to invest their time on creation of engaging online content for
both asynchronous and synchronous learning.
Facilitate the availability of these lectures or any other audio or video content
through captioning.

5. CREATE ACCESSIBLE MATERIALS.
Ensure that documents can be easily shared and printed and that are
compatible with assistive technologies.
Adopt inclusive writing, respectful and sensitive to students from different
backgrounds.
Format text in easily readable colours and fonts.
Provide course content materials in multiple formats.

6. HELP STUDENTS MAINTAIN FOCUS.
Lacking the structure of a traditional school day, many students find it difficult
to concentrate, prioritize, organize their time, and stay on track.
For each week, spell out the tasks that students must complete. Make sure
your directions are easy to follow.
Prompt students repeatedly to remind them of activities, assignments,
assessments, and due dates.
Organize each class session around shorter sequences and activities.
Interrupt the class frequently to pose or solicit questions.

7. MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS.
Motivation is a key to effective learning, and perhaps the single most important
contributor to motivation is the course’s perceived relevance.
It is important to discuss the course’s utility, value, and applicability from the
outset.
Help your students understand the ways that your course provides anessential
foundation for more advanced courses.
How it will help them acquire particular skills, or how it addresses issues that
the students find particularly interesting.