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A Blueprint for Online Course Design and Development

By Robin M. Smith

Series: Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning

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Conquering the Content: A Blueprint for Online Course Design and Development, Second Edition by Robin M. Smith offers a practical guide to creating engaging and effective online courses. The book emphasises maintaining pedagogical quality while adapting content for online delivery, featuring templates, learning guides, and sample files. Key new features include relevance statements, content maps, and time-saving tips that help organise material for better student retention. It equips instructors and instructional designers with strategies to design courses that enhance navigation, prioritise content flow, and integrate assessments suited to online formats, ensuring a solid foundation despite the rapidly evolving digital learning landscape.
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This book is ideal for educators and instructional designers working to transition or develop courses for online learning environments, especially those seeking practical methods grounded in educational theory. It serves higher education professionals aiming to improve student outcomes in distance and hybrid learning settings by focusing on effective course structure and pedagogy.

Put your course online now, without sacrificing pedagogical quality Conquering the Content: A Blueprint for Online Course Design and Development, Second Edition is a highly practical guide to creating online courses.

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Put your course online now, without sacrificing pedagogical quality

Conquering the Content: A Blueprint for Online Course Design and Development, Second Edition is a highly practical guide to creating online courses. With guidance on incorporating learning theory into online course content, as well as a host of templates, learning guides, and sample files, this book furnishes instructors and instructional designers with the information and tools they need to design and develop their course content to better serve online students.

This second edition introduces relevance statements and time-saving tips as well as content maps which provide a scaffold for content organisation and help students anchor the topics in their memories for retrieval. Readers will gain expert insight and best practices for designing within the rapidly changing online learning environment and learn to incorporate recent advances that can improve student outcomes. Because the book is designed to focus on online teaching pedagogy, it won't go out of date as specific tools change.

Nearly one-third of all students in higher education are taking at least one online class, and online hybrid classes are becoming more widespread. Distance learning is becoming the norm, but creating an online class is more complex than just posting course content on a website. Conquering the Content demonstrates how instructors can best revamp their course content to suit the online learning environment, and provides the tools and resources instructors need to transfer their effectiveness from the classroom to the online environment. Learn how to:

Create student-friendly navigation structures that support what is known about the brain and learning
Organise content based on priority, flow, and easy navigation
Create assessments that work within the parameters of an online course
"Chunk" information to facilitate better processing

Time is of the essence in getting a course online, but it's important that pedagogy not get lost in the crush of new content. Course design is just as critical as course content when it comes to distance learning outcomes, and Conquering the Content provides a holistic and practical approach to effective online course development.

Series: Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning

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By Robin M. Smith

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ISBN: 9781118717080

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Robin M. Smith, Ph.D. is currently Director of eLearning and Continuing Education at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Previously, she was Coordinator of eLearning at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences for eleven years where she was in charge of faculty development for all five colleges plus the graduate school. She has over sixteen years experience teaching online and fifteen years experience in faculty development and course design. In addition, Smith was responsible for course design and development for six colleges; during this time the institution experienced tremendous growth in the number of online courses.

Conquering the Content