Course Design Formula: How to Teach Anything to Anyone Online - Softcover

Cuevas, Rebecca Frost

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732782318 ISBN 13: 9781732782310

Publisher: Learn and Get Smarter, Inc., 2019

Synopsis

If your goal is not just to sell digital products, but to become a world-changing global teacher, the Course Design Formula will help you get there. You will build your course better, faster, and more effectively than others who are not using a research-based instructional design process.

The guidance you'll receive in this book will make your online course creation process fast, fun, effective, and simple to apply to your specific content and target audience.

• 2020 INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALIST (EDUCATION)
• 14th ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST (EDUCATION)
• 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST (EDUCATION/ACADEMIC)

This book introduces and explains the Course Design Formula, a research-based instructional design process that promotes excellence in online course development. Integrating best practices from cognitive psychology, instructional design, learning theory, information processing theory, and more, the formula helps you create high-quality learning journeys for your online course participants.

Award-winning teacher and online learning expert Rebecca Frost Cuevas developed this formula in order to help creative thinkers, thought leaders and entrepreneurs design engaging and effective online courses that deliver real transformation.

This book integrates and synthesizes the findings of leading education researchers such as Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, and Robert Gagne with the author's extensive professional training and experience. The result is a clear, simple, easy-to-apply process you can use to make your presentations stand out in the online-learning space.

Whether you are an experienced teacher in the offline space, or you have never taught before in any context, get ready for a fast track guide to how to be a truly transformational teacher, online.

If you are a business owner, subject matter expert, creative thinker, or mission-driven thought leader, this book will cut through the stress and overwhelm that is a natural part of trying to structure your complex creative ideas into an online course.

So what are you waiting for? The sooner you start reading this book, the sooner you will be able to get your expertise out of your head and onto the web . . . where you can start making money, and start making a difference for the people you are here to serve.

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About the Author

Rebecca Frost Cuevas, founder and CEO of Learn and Get Smarter, Inc., is a leading online learning education consultant and trainer for experts and entrepreneurs. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University, as well as two master's degrees in education. Her first master's, from Wheelock College Graduate School, is in curriculum design and development. Her second, from California State University, San Bernardino, is in instructional technology.

For fifteen years, Rebecca designed and delivered award-winning education programs for public utilities in Southern California, impacting over 150,000 students with hands-on learning experiences relating to water and energy conservation. The education programs she created won national and regional awards, including the prestigious Community Service Award from the American Public Power Association and the prominent Clair A. Hill Award from the Association of California Water Agencies. Rebecca also received multiple federal scholarships for international study, and (fun fact!) learned Photoshop and Illustrator at a technical school in a foreign language, where she was the only nonnative speaker in the class. She brings a creative, multicultural perspective to her work in educational consulting, instructional design, and curriculum development.

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Introduction

Part I: Big Ideas about Learning and Teaching Online

Chapter 1: What Is Learning?

Chapter 2: What Is Teaching?

Chapter 3: How to Teach Effectively Online

Part II: The Course Design Formula®

Chapter 4: How the Formula Works: An Overview

Chapter 5: Step 1: Get Clear on the Transformation Your Course Delivers

Chapter 6: Step 2: Discover the Specific Type of Learning Your Course Contains

Chapter 7: Step 3: Set Up Modules to Support Your Course's Learning Goal

Chapter 8: Step 4: Plan and Set Up Your Lessons

Chapter 9: Step 5: Select Your Media and Build Your Course

Part Three: Prepare Your Course for Success

Chapter 10: Make Your Materials Easy to Understand

Chapter 11: Make Your Lessons Motivating

Chapter 12: Make Your Learner the Focus as You Build Your Course

Chapter 13: Make Sure Your Course Is Working for All Your Learners

Part IV: Test and Refine to Make Your Course Shine

Chapter 14: How to Adapt Face-to-Face Learning to Online (and How Not To)

Chapter 15: How to Create a Transformative Online Course

Chapter 16: How to Create Effective, Skillful, and Elegant Learning

Appendix A: The Course Design Formula® in a Nutshell

Appendix B: Sample Survey

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Art Credits

Next Steps

Resources

About the Author

Edition details

• Publisher: Learn and Get Smarter, Inc.
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732782318
• ISBN 13: 9781732782310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448