This document provides guidance for instructors on putting an on-ground course online. It emphasizes that an online course should be interactive, engage students in collaborative activities, and foster a sense of learning community. When designing the online course, instructors should consider questions about pacing, audience, available materials and technology, and types of support. The document also stresses the importance of using a syllabus as a roadmap and having clear expectations through learning contracts to engage students and give them ownership of their learning.

2. Learning is interactive when learners are actively engaged in a variety of activities, and along with their peers and teacher, they are co-constructors of knowledge. The learning environment provides a sense of a learning community within which participants collaborate with others to negotiate and share meanings. -Chamberlain & Vrasidas, 2001