I am researching online courses and what features are needed to promote effective learning and to engage the students
The features I am looking at are things such as the topic, students say that an interesting topic is needed but how can we predict what will be interesting? If the topic is constrained by the needs of the course how can we make it more interesting? How can we even define interesting? Should the questions be short and allow a flexible interpretation or longer and more focused. If there is a certain level of knowledge required how can we encourage students to engage with that knowledge. Should the gaining knowledge be prior to the discussion or during. Even the quickest of surveys of the questions on this site shows that there are many styles of questions and the number of responses to each question can vary greatly. I am sure there are a number of other features that need to be considered.
Article Design and Pedagogy Features in Online Courses: A survey
The influence of Information Communication Technology (ICT) of “now day’s education” is obvious and evident. Therefore, the impact on the learning/teaching process (in almost all fields and levels of education) is enormous.
No matter what you think with the term online courses, they could be part of e Learning systems, or Distance education courses, etc. So, you may consider the influence of the "simple" equation: eEducation = eLearning + eTeaching on promoting effective learning and to engaging the students in accepting the knowledge.
That means the online courses have to be planned with the proper pedagogical approach, as well as they have to be quite interesting for the user, i.e. student. Also, an adequate way of assessment and evaluation of the acquired knowledge have to be predicted.
Therefore, the answer to the question is, the good online course is very, very expensive, and the developing time is very consuming. In my more than thirty research experience in field of eEducation, I have seen very small of good online courses which promote effective learning and to engage the students to accept knowledge better.
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