01/15/2023
When you determine your biggest topics of your course as Learning Outcomes, you’ll focus your curriculum through the lens of the biggest take-aways. This helps not only crystalize your message for your students but also your marketing.
When you’re done writing your content, you’ll have both a well-thought-out course and every message you’ll need for your marketing strategy.
Distance learning is results-oriented teaching. Classroom learning is process-oriented teaching. When you teach online you don’t have the luxury of long attention spans. Your students are not sitting in a room with you. You can’t take the paintbrush out of their hand and show them how to do it.
Any time spent teaching that isn’t getting to the point is not learning-outcome-based thinking.
Some things just don’t translate to online teaching.
You may hate being forced to think in results-based orientation. You’re actually trying to engage through a screen. Anything that’s boring is going to cause lean-out. Too much lean-out and they exit. You have to be a genius to do it any other way.
When you take out the physical interaction, you really have to pay attention to the medium you’re working with. The medium is the message in that way.
This is an excerpt from "Get Direction, 5 Steps to Teaching Online Like a Pro"
https://method.edirector.design/courses/get-direction
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