Top 5 Things I have figured out about building a blended course Laura Reid (from the Computer Science Department)

Number 5 Buy the book: E-Learning and the Science of Instruction by Clark and Mayer Great Tips about: Avatars Closed Captioning Feedback on quizzes

Number 4 Make is videos/audio for your course is similar to having your eyes stabbed with hot forks: I wanted to tell where the course was going, but I wasn’t totally sure yet I wanted to refer the course in the videos but I had no name or course number yet. Figure out how you want a typical week to work, get one week basically how you want, and then start pumping all the material out (otherwise you will waste time) Making videos/audio is hard  e.g. tag vs element Slide 2 (remember the movie Frozen)

Number 3 I highly recommend that, for the FIRST online course you create, go from existing course to blended rather than new course to blended!

Number 2 Adobe Captivate is really, really, really cool, but really, really hard at first, lynda.com is really, really, REALLY wonderful and well worth the money. http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~lreid/cs1046/lectures/week1 /addinglinks/week1addingalink/ lynda.com

And the number 1 thing I figured out about making a blended course is… I won’t really know if I figured anything at all about making a blended course until after April 30, 2015 