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Creating (better) course content
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.
Written by
Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
Brainstorms
Brainstorms are a great way to activate learners prior knowledge and show the range of concepts within a topic.
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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
Writing feedback for tasks and activities
Ideas for what you can write in the feedback section of tasks and activities.
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Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago
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.
Written by
Caitlin Foran
Updated over a week ago