Creating (better) course content

Expert guides on creating engaging and interactive content to support learning.

16 articles in this collection
Written by Caitlin Foran

Choosing the right marking template for your context

Looking at the learner and facilitator views to help you, as an author, choose the right marking template.

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Active learning

Active learning techniques

An overview of ways to keep learners engaged and active, with links to articles demonstrating specific techniques.

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Active learning – Definitions

Ideas for activities and tasks to keep your learners active and help them learn and remember terms and definitions.

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Active learning - ordering and ranking

Ideas for activities and tasks to keep your learners active and help them learn process, method, framework or hierarchy.

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Active learning - compare and contrast

Ideas for activities and tasks to keep your learners active and help them learn by looking at similarities and differences.

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Activating prior knowledge

Activate prior knowledge

Strategies you can use as an author or facilitator to support learners in activating their knowledge (and improve learning).

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Concept maps

Concepts maps or graphic organisers are a great way to activate learners prior knowledge and reveal the structure of their schema.

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What I KNOW, THINK I know and WANT to know charts

These know, think, want charts are a great way to activate learners prior knowledge and encourage them to set their own learning goals.

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Image prompts

Image prompts are a great way to activate learners prior knowledge, act as a visual hook to make associations and recall concepts.

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Simple story prompts

Stories are a great way to activate learners prior knowledge and help learners to connect and recall concepts as simple stories are sticky.

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Brainstorms

Brainstorms are a great way to activate learners prior knowledge and show the range of concepts within a topic.

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Structuring and writing content

Writing sites and tools to use

Our recommendations for tools to help with writing great, clear course content.

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Course design principles from cognitive science

Principles about how your brain deals with learning and what it means for your course

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Cut down that content

Focusing your course (and learners' time) by only including relevant content and cutting down on word count - say more, write less.

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Writing feedback for tasks and activities

Ideas for what you can write in the feedback section of tasks and activities.

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How to use Grammarly to check grammar and spelling

How to add and use a Grammarly browser extension as a spellcheck to review your course for grammar and spelling before publishing.

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