Developing Effective Web-Based Courses

Table of Contents

1. The Nature of Online Instruction
2. Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning
   1. A Quality Online Course
   2. Prepare Your Materials
   3. Create an Online Course
   4. Prepare Materials for Electronic Delivery
   5. Create an Online Learning Community in Your Course
   6. Self-Assessment Two
3. The Simulated Classroom

Create an Online Course

Make an outline of your course according to those in the following table. Create and name a folder on your desktop for each element. Once you have created documents, files, images, etc. for your course content you will place each in the appropriate folder.

To ensure quality in your online course make sure that you consider the quality elements described by the NEA for online learning "best practices" in higher education and used by many universities.

Online Course Elements

View the online course evaluation rubric used by Troy University prior to putting all of your course elements together. You can view the rubric by clicking on the following text link: Troy University's Online Course Evaluation Rubric.