How to Create an Effective Online Learning Environment

Improve your eLearning and blended learning provision

Over recent years, learners have spent more time online as a result of the COVID pandemic and its continued impact on learning environments.

On this five-week course, you’ll learn how to facilitate successful online learning environments, whether they’re being used to support flipped learning, hybrid learning, or fully online education.

Examine online teaching and learning theories and perspectives

On this course, you’ll be introduced to a range of principles and perspectives to inform your online learning planning and delivery. You’ll explore procedures to carry out needs assessment and context analysis in relation to online environments.

This knowledge will inform your planning process and help you design a learning environment to meet the specific needs of your learners.

Learn to create an educational course with a learning management system

Learning management systems are responsible for the administration, monitoring, and delivery of educational courses.

You’ll evaluate a range of educational course management platforms and examine the tools available to enhance and improve your current online delivery.

With this understanding, you’ll be able to choose an appropriate learning management system for your setting and demonstrate how it could be embedded into your current processes.

Discover instructional design models for online teaching

Using pedagogical theory, you’ll be able to situate your online learning environment within your current frameworks and learning objectives.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a broad understanding of eLearning environments and theories. You’ll also have experience of learning management systems and be able to demonstrate how they can improve learning outcomes when used to support your online provision.

This course is designed for teachers and educators in schools who want to develop their skill in creating online learning provision.

• Online course design
• Welcome to the course 'How to creating an effective online learning environment'
• Effective online learning
• Reflection on Week 1
• Instructional design models
• Introduction
• ADDIE model
• The S.A.M. model
• Learning Management Systems
• Conclusion
• Creating an online course in a Learning Management System
• Introduction
• Creating an online course in Moodle
• Conclusion
• Web 2.0 tools for planning and presenting of learning
• Introduction
• Collaborative planning tools
• Presentation tools
• Readings
• Conclusion
• Evaluation of online courses
• Online course evaluation
• Course Assessment