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Designing learning activities / Encouraging completion

How to motivate students using course design

A lack of motivation is one of the most common reasons why a student does not complete an online course. This causes problems for an online orientation program, as such …

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Assessment and evaluation / Designing learning activities / Getting started

10 lessons learned from our first launch

Launching a new program is always a learning experience, and launching UVic’s Pre-Arrival Program was no different. Reading through the feedback in our end-of-program survey really highlighted what mattered to …

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Designing learning activities / Getting started

Setting up your course platform

When designing an online orientation program, we often spend a lot of time thinking about and creating our content and learning activities. We want them to be high quality so …

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Designing learning activities

Top tools for creating interactive content and videos

There are probably thousands of tools online that can help you create interactive content, and all of them have their own pros and cons. Here are some of the best …

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Designing learning activities

How to get students to like your text-based content

Text-based content often gets a bad reputation as a learning activity, and students often complain when a course is heavily text-based. “Less text please” was a common comment we received …

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The essentials of digital accessibility

A version of this post was initially co-written with Joanna Lake for an EDCI 565 project I learned a ton about digital accessibility throughout the process of designing UVic’s Pre-Arrival …

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Designing learning activities

An introduction to digital accessibility

Portions of this post were originally co-written by Joanna Lake as part of an EDCI 565 project Before you even start thinking about what type of content you want to …

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