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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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!

5. 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.
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lynda.com

6. 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, 