Creating an online course is not difficult but creating an effective and engaging online course not also easy. But by following some simple steps you can create an effective course that attracts the students like a magnet.
Here are some steps which can help create an online course.
Step 1: Choose your topic:
Your topic should be as specific as possible. Choose the title of course which attracts students by just reading the title of course. To choose the topic identify your main idea and narrow down to the specific topic.
While choosing the topic you must make sure that the topic you are choosing:
• Are you an expert in it?
• How deep knowledge you have about the topic?
• The demand for a topic?
These three questions you must cover before topic choice. After deciding the topic of choosing effective keywords that attract the students.
Step 2: Identify the Target Audience:
After topic choosing, you have to choose the group or who you choose the topic. To identify the targeted audience you need to cover the following aspects.
Age – Depending on your topic age may be different. So make sure that your writing and teaching style must be according to your audience age. Also, select examples and ways of teaching by keeping in mind what age level you addressing.
Gender – Like age, gender also be considerable factor because sometimes you cannot address the same example to both male and female students. So keep also this factor in your mind.
Level of Education – What is the level of education your audience has. Adjust the level of complexity of course according to your audience level. Also material and lectures should be according to your students.
Step 3: Structure Your Content:
Once you have done with what you are teaching and to whom you are teaching, now the time is to structure and plan your material. This step is an important part of the course creation lifecycle, so you have to do this with a proper plan and give your major starting time to this step to create an effective and engaging content of your course. Content of course should cover your all audience and their education level.
To create course content you need to determine the important concepts in your main topic and then make them a list. Arrange them in a way that they should interlink with each other. Title the concept and include them in a lecture or chapter. It is more preferable to make modules of the whole course, and in one module it consists of two or more lectures or chapters.
Your course structure should include some assessment methods i.e. quizzes, assignments, and/or practice activities. This will give them a proper understanding of what you deliver.
If your course structure is proper you can teach with ease and your students will also get proper understandings.
Step 4: Production of course:
Now you are ready for production, of course, choose the techniques and methods of delivering your content to the students. Make the lecture as easy and understandable as possible. Quote examples where needed, support your material with facts and figures. Show practical examples to give more understandings.
The other important part of the Production is to choose the correct way of delivery. Use video lectures, animated video lecture, presentation slide shows, etc. which suits according to your material needs.
Step 5: Choose a platform:
Now the time is to in which platform you have to upload your course. For choosing a platform, you need to look at the following factors, i.e. pricing, audience, already available courses, and their marketing techniques.
Pricing means how much you get from the course registration and how much fee you have to pay to register your course on the platform.
Audience means are their enough targeted audience of your course on the platform. If yes then you will meet your expectations from the audience.
Available courses mean how many courses of the same nature or topics already available on that platform. If there is a big number of same courses available then you could fade into mass you already available courses. So you need to choose a distinct and attractive topic and course content to acquire desired results.
Marketing Techniques decide how effective their marketing is if you consider their marketing methods will you get the desired number of audience for your course or not.
By following and considering the above-given steps you can make an engaging and effective course and will get a positive response from your audience and helps your audience to get a better experience and build interest in learning.