Making changes is challenging, and knowing what changes you want to make can be one of the most difficult parts of the process.
- Start with a clear vision/direction - what are you trying to accomplish? - Who is your audience? What do they need to be successful? - What changes feel authentic? Making this kind of a change will probably only work if it fits your style and goals as an educator. |
If you're building a quest chain or a gamified site to reorganize your learning activities, I recommend having an interested student go through your course and look for missing/broken/incorrect links. You might be amazed at how interconnected and complicated your site becomes. Reward your tester with a "Fine-Toothed Comb" badge for their hard work.
(If you're lucky like I was, you might just have a students "volunteer" to do this and happily tell you about all your mistakes and typos too!) |
It's true. Those videos you spent hours scripting, recording, and editing are all frozen in time, which your course is not.
If you are like me, you will make changes that render your videos incorrect or out of date, which in turn confuses your students and sends you back to the video storyboard. I'm considering these changes to be opportunities to show off new clothes and hairstyles, rather than inconveniences! |
Speaking of confused students... this course format is a big change from what most of your students will be used to, and it will take time and a lot of patient support on your end to get things up and running.
It is tech-dependent, and anyone working in DL knows that it takes time for students to become fluent with new technologies. Give them time, build it into the process, and be forgiving of yourself too! |