8 Summary

We’ve laid some groundwork for the rest of this program. Online course design and teaching can be a daunting task, but there is also room for reflection, innovation, collaboration, and improvements to learning.

We walked through some basic design principles for online teaching and learning, and also provided you with an opportunity to practice what you are learning. Our goal is that program content and activities will be immediately useful to you in your teaching or planning.

Self-Check

At this point, you should be able to do the following. Feel free to review course materials as needed.

• Familiarize yourself with how this course is organized, including learning materials and activities
• Locate course and university support options available to you
• Review online course design frameworks and how they will be used to guide course modules
• Learn about Build Your Course Activities which will occur throughout the course modules

Takeaways

• Being familiar with the research-based frameworks and theories that support online learning will help inform your online course design and teaching.
• In any course, it’s important to navigate participants to how learning and communication will take place. Online, it’s even more important.
• There are many support resources in this course and across the university. You are not alone!

Up Next

In the next module, we will talk about Universal Design for Learning and Accessibility.