Course Creation Best Practices
Content Creation Best Practices: Plagiarism Do's and Don'ts
How to Create a Strong Lesson Format
1. Write a title and short description for each lesson. When learners enter your course, they will see all of the individual lessons listed (shown below). Use this space to summarize, explain the key points, or to highlight the benefits of the ...
Tips for Differentiating Content
As you build your lessons, keep in mind the following: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein Whether Einstein actually said this ...
Tips for Incorporating Videos
When it comes to videos, the thing is, there is no one video length to rule them all. However, the most recent research suggests that the optimal length of an online course video is 6 to 12 minutes. Additional data suggests that the majority of ...
Best Practices for Our Unique Audience
Appropriateness Is the content appropriate for consumption by an incarcerated audience? Does it contain nudity, violence, drug use that would not be suitable for an incarcerated population that stands at higher risk for relapse into ...
What is Spaced Learning and How Do I Use It?
Spaced repetition is the strategic repetition of past lessons in predetermined intervals after the learners learned it the first time. This helps combat the dreaded Forgetting Curve (it’s a real thing!) Think about trying to learn a new language. If ...
How to Create Strong Assessment Questions
As every course and learning objective is unique, different assessments can be used to determine whether or not a learner achieved the learning objectives and reached the desired goals. In some cases, an assessment may not even be necessary! Perhaps ...
How to Define Course Objectives
Let’s pretend you sift through all of your videos, PDFs, audios and images you have already created (pat yourself on the back, they’re fantastic!) You quickly realize that you created them with a purpose, now it’s just a matter of putting words to ...