Building Multimodal Online Courses that Create Real Learning

Course details

This course will give you comprehensive instruction on how to build an online course in any learning management system. Whether you are using Udemy, Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, Angel, D2L, BrainHoney or any other system, you can use this course as your main resource for building high quality online courses.

At the Blended Schools Network we focus on the strategies that surround quality course building rather than just showing you how to click buttons in the software. This means in the course you learn how to:

 Thoroughly plan out you learning goals for your online course before you start building.

 Build a quality outline and template for all your units and lessons.

 Build high quality assessments that measure completion of your learning goals.

 Create engaging lessons that hook your learners.

 Create collaboration prompts that activate higher-order thinking.

You will learn how to use backwards design to ensure you always have your end learning goals in mind. This process works by identifying the ultimate understanding that a learner should gain from a unit of study, then designing assessments that allow demonstration of that understanding and finally the building the instruction itself.

If you are a K12 online course builder or teacher you will find this course even more useful because it aligns with the iNacol quality online courses standards. These standards are research based and designed to guide online course builders towards building a great online course every time.

Multi-modal courses use every tool at a course builders disposal to design an experience that supports learners' needs, talents and preferences. Use tool such as instructional videos, blogs, wikis, journaling, note taking, guided practice, formative assessments and robust projects to give learners a truly rounded experience.