Here is a checklist that may help you:
✓Create a user-centric learning experience: every design decision you make must be what’s best, not for your content, but for your learner. You can incorporate a user-centric learning experi-ence by empathizing with your learner’s needs, challenges, pain points, by tailoring content to various learners needs and methodological approaches and using different kinds of digital tools.
✓Creating an inclusive learning experience. Do this by recognizing that each of your learners are unique and comes with their own experiences and preferred style of learning.
✓Encouraging social engagement. Do this by creating a learning community to complement your online course. This enables social learning opportunities for your learners to share their knowledge and expertise with you and each other. Sometimes the best learning experience you can create is when you let your learners collectively solve their own problems.
✓Create a media-rich learning experience. Your online course is an opportunity to incorporate multiple forms of multimedia, which can help your learners better engage and connect with the concepts you’re trying to teach. Showing your learners what you’re trying to say. Do this by in-corporating images, graphics, and explainer videos that illustrate the concepts you’re trying to explain. This can help engage your learner and make your content memorable.
✓Letting the content drive the delivery method. Do this by pairing the right multimedia for the concept you’re teaching. For example, if something is best understood when it’s demonstrated, then use an image or video to demonstrate it. Creating a blended learning experience. Do this by delivering your content in multiple formats and forms of multimedia.
✓Create a hands-on learning experience. If walking away with some extra knowledge is all your learners do after completing your course, then it wouldn’t be effective. Your goal should be to create a transformative experience where your learners walk away with new skills they can im-mediately apply in their lives. Designing activities that put skills into practice. Do this by creat-ing tutorials, challenges, and practice assignments. For every concept you’re trying to teach, think about how you can create opportunities for your learners to apply those concepts.
✓Putting skills into the context of the real world. Do this by incorporating case studies and scenar-ios into your learning content. This will help your learners understand how they can apply their newly-acquired skills in their own lives.
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