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“The move to an online format offers you opportunities to try out new methods and approaches. Preserving the quality of your course need not mean finding an exact translation of what you’ve always done in the past” (Ko & Rossen, 2001, p. 47).
While the course you are teaching online may be one you have taught in a face-to-face environment in the past, you should not assume that the online version of that course will look and feel the same as the face-to-face version you’ve taught before. It’s okay (and even good!) for an online course to be different from a traditional offering of the same course. Simply posting your lectures and syllabus is not the best strategy for converting a course to an online environment (Ko & Rossen, 2001). It pays to rethink the course.
However, while the online environment is certainly different than a face-to-face classroom, the basics of course design still apply to the design of online courses. This section will draw from information covered in the Course Design module in this series.
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