{"id":17854,"date":"2014-02-03T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:23:39","slug":"the-3-keys-to-online-course-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/the-3-keys-to-online-course-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Keys to Online Course Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1050\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/twoco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\" wp-image-1050 \" alt=\"  LERN\u2019s Certified Online Instructor (COI) program \" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/twoco.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty at Brock School of Business, Samford University, during LERN online teacher training last month.<\/p><\/div>\nThere are three keys to success with online courses right now. The lack of these keys are also the three biggest reasons why online courses fail.<br \/>\nLERN highlighted the three keys once again last month in an on-site training session for faculty about to teach graduate courses online with the Brock School of Business at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.<br \/>\n<strong>Key #1. Continual engagement of the instructor<\/strong><br \/>\nInstructors need to be seen as frequently in the online classroom, always responding to questions, facilitating online discussion, sending students encouraging notes about their progress in the course, and more.<br \/>\nWith LERN\u2019s techniques your online instructors don\u2019t have to overwork or spend too much time in the online course. But with LERN\u2019s tips your instructors will be continually engaged with your students.<br \/>\n<strong>Key #2. Multimedia<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery online course needs to includes audio presentations with slides from the instructor. If the instructor can do quality video, original video can be an alternative as long as your students hear your instructor\u2019s voice.<br \/>\nThis is the first year LERN has recommended that even first time online instructors with new online courses include multimedia in the very first offering.<br \/>\nOther multimedia, such as YouTube videos or other non-original multimedia is welcome and good as a supplement to the instructor\u2019s own multimedia.<br \/>\n<strong>Key #3. Student Involvement with Content<\/strong><br \/>\nYour students want and can be involved with the content.\u00a0 Involvement with the content increases learning.\u00a0 That involvement can be interacting with webquests, simulations, and other content.\u00a0 The involvement can include actually creating content, such as PowerPoint presentations or even videos. That involvement can be team projects.<br \/>\nWhen your students have something to \u201cdo\u201d with the content, not just listening or reading content, the research shows that learning increases.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/events-and-education\/online-courses-for-continuing-education-professionals\/certified-online-instructor-coi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LERN\u2019s Certified Online Instructor (COI) program<\/a> provides three online courses with online authorities and authors for your online instructors, whether new or experienced. \u00a0With our COI online courses offered throughout the year, you and your instructors can start the program anytime.<br \/>\nFor more information on COI and other LERN consulting and training services for online courses and online teachers, just email Tammy at <a href=\"mailto:info@lern.org\">info@lern.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three keys to success with online courses right now. The lack of these keys are also the three biggest reasons why online courses fail. LERN highlighted the three keys once again last month in an on-site training session for faculty about to teach graduate courses online with the Brock School of Business at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19200,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854\/revisions\/19200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}