1. Get a clear picture of what is the intended content and its audience
Spend some amount of time to determine that required content. For a start, refer to an existing Lesson Plan or discuss with another person who is also familiar with the contents.
As a guide:
- Determine a clear objective
- What might the difficult for the learner to understand?
- Determine a way to measure what was learnt
2. Make the contents active
Learning that may already be interesting such as those with action-oriented and includes user behaviour and is easily added to contents. For informative items that look like its going to be a boring bullet point presentations, it will kill an online learner. Use visual designs for this type of contents to help retention.
As a guide:
- Look for graphics online
- Use word association
- Look at different ways of presenting multimedia contents
3. Create meaningful activities
Design activities with the learnings in mind. Activities can be done within the same content, external online resources or offline. It will take extra effort initially, but custom activities will keep learners coming back for more.
