Visual Design for Online Learning

Visual Design for Online Learning Enhance instructional effectiveness with this quick-start guide to visual course design

• Discover the latest technologies for visually designing online instruction
• Learn the best way to find images on the Internet for use in your course
• Easily embed video and other multimedia into course pages
• Facilitate discussions and projects with pedagogically relevant designs
• Help learners understand and retain course content
• Identify the visual potential of learning management systems like Blackboard
• Make your courses more engaging, more effective, and more accessible

> --Rita-Marie Conrad, digital learning strategist, University of California, Berkeley, and award-winning author of Engaging the Online Learner > --Deborah Everhart, instructor, Georgetown University > --Sandra Coswatte-Mohr, director of Institute for Learning, The Online Learning Consortium

List of contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments x

About the Author xvii

Chapter 1: How Do I Begin? 1

Chapter 2: How Do I Include Images and Video? 27

Chapter 3: How Do I Facilitate Instruction and Interaction? 63

Chapter 4: How Do I Integrate Multimedia? 97

Chapter 5: How Do I Visually Design a Course? 129

Chapter 6: How Do I Support Learners Online? 153

Appendix A: Syllabus Review Script 167

Appendix B: Course Welcome and Orientation Script 170

References 173

Index 177

About the author

TORRIA DAVIS is an instructional designer for the Online and Professional Studies Division of California Baptist University.

Summary

Update the visual design of your course in pedagogically sound ways Visual Design for Online Learning spotlights the role that visual elements play in the online learning environment.

Product details

• Authors: Torria Bond, DAVIS, Torria Davis, Davis Torria
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2015
• EAN: 9781118922439
• ISBN: 978-1-118-92243-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning; Jossey-Bass Guides to Online T; Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning; Jossey-Bass Guides to Online T
• Subjects: Education and learning > Learning aids/university-entrance diploma theory; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices