Get Your Students Hired
The Look and Feel of an Online Course is very important. Take for example, the visual. If the content is not well organized students can get lost in the classroom. A Roadmap, somewhat like a weekly syllabus, should be used to keep students on track and engaged. The weekly assignments, discussions and tests should be easily located to promote student success and eliminate frustration.
Matthew,
Interactive is nice, make sure students are learning the material and not just the fun of technology. There are times when I have had students forget what they are in class for!!
Shelly Crider
Mike,
I had the same experience at an online school and only made it through one course. I then switched to another online school and found the courses very interactive. It has made continuing my education much more helpful. Keep shopping around and don't give up. The better courses are out there.
I completely agree. It is imperative for an online course to have a look and feel that is inviting as well as having the knowledge that needs to be imparted to the student. If there is no draw to the course then the incentive to keep coming back to it dwindles over time. I have found that when we introduce our online courses the students seek out the areas that are most interactive. This shows to me that the online venue needs to be interactive and inviting for all components.
Does anyone disagree or have further insight?
The look and feel of an online course is very important. The online classroom can be a very scary place for some students and having an easy to use and easy to understand classroom design helps students feel comfortable. Well-designed online classrooms will enable the student to easily access classroom resources with little effort and frustration.
Fonzette,
Excellent post! You said it all with "good visual and easy navigation"!
Shelly Crider
Hello Shelly,
I agree that the look and feel of the online course is important as the knowledge and skills because all students learn differently and they should be able to have a good visual and easy navigation of the course so that they are successful. Instructors can add you tube videos and graphics to assist in building the community in their course. This goes back to the navigation simplicity where students should be able to locate, access and use information so that they are successful in the course.
Fonzette Smith-Leavell
I agree that the look and feel of an online course is important because with anything, if it seems cluttered, unorganized, confusing, well it will not be useful and effective to the learners. When the online course looks structurally organized and navigational, the learner wouldn't become frustrated and discontinue with the course.
Catina,
We hope that our students can understand what we want them to, and if they cannot, we hope they ask!
Shelly Crider
Yes, the look and feel of an online course is very important for the learner. Each learner should find the course content laid in an organized platform. Materials should be easy to locate and understand. Everything should be written on a level for all users to understand.
Rebecca,
There are some colors that are very offensive to some and then you have to be careful knowing there are color blind students as well.
Shelly Crider
I would agree as navigation and feel of the course can make an individual feel comfortable about starting the course or very uncomfortable especially taking an online course the first time around. Having a LMS that is user friendly and having a user friendly module based course set-up can make one have a much greater positive feel going into the course. Obviously the opposite would be true in that if the LMS and course is not easily understood and easy to navigate it can be frustrating.
William Huber
yes visual of the online course is important.
The visual needs to be clean and easy to follow so the student will feel comfortable with navagating the course. Colors, shapes the type needs to be inviting and pleasing to the eye. If it is cluttered and offensive colors they will not want to take the course and may get agrivated easily.
Dean ,
Glad you said "clean". As there are times easy can be messy!
Shelly Crider
Rose,
We do want students to learn, so a class easy to move in will indeed help with learning.
Shelly Crider