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How to Create Online Courses that are High-Quality & Affordable

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How to Create Online Courses that are High-Quality & Affordable

Introduction  

The market space of online course is profitable and expanding its horizon with ever-increasing demand of knowledge-driven economy. Creating online courses is to educate the public, whilst teaching on a specific subject or helping them develop a particular skill. This blog will give you a good idea of what to expect from the journey of creating and marketing online courses. However, you would also need to come up with a purpose for creating your online course to make sure that you will provide value to the rest of the world.   

Listed below are steps that will help you create online courses that are engaging and efficient as per the learner’s demand.   

  1. Make a list of goals and objectives 

Preplan your course development process before you get started with training development. Make a list of your objectives; this will shed some light on what you would like to achieve when your learners have completed the online courses. Is your objective to double sales after completing the course, or you want your HR managers to be completely aware of the company’s whereabouts for better knowledge transfer to your employees.    

  1. Deal and discuss with SMEs and Stakeholders 

Have a crystal-clear discussion with the instructional designers and stakeholders and take them through your objective behind creating the online course. Talk to them on what basis will they have to validate and refine the content for the course development process. The work and discussion involved with instructional designers and stakeholders are to ensure the project is always on track and the process to create online courses is ongoing in the right direction.   

  1. Make use of storyboard for your online courses 

With all the information about the online course in one place, you can begin storyboarding the content and develop a framework for the course. This framework includes content and talks about photos, icons, charts, infographics, animations, or videos to use in the course. So, things like graphics, animation, screen texts, branching, audio narration script, slide title are few components of storyboarding that can make your course engaging and effective when you create online courses.   

  1. Come up with a course script  

At this stage, you might be having a proper online course structure but still lack something. Well, that’s is where content scripting takes the center stage. While you create online courses, this script is the backbone of your whole plan and transforms the raw content into something engaging. You can also add narration to the script and make it listener-friendly. While adding narration, make sure that your script is conversational. Also, check the readability of the script and make the sentences smooth and clear.   

  1. Put all the content together in the course 

Now that you have structured your online course and embedded with necessary media, images and videos; you can put all the content with the help of authoring toolkit like Paradiso composer.  Paradiso composer is a web-based tool used for creating dynamic and engaging elearning content which can be used across multiple platforms. It’s innovative and easy to use design doesn’t require any coding or programming experience to be able to create elearning content.   

  1. Record a voice-over or video 

Audio and video serve as great assets to support the text when you create online courses. To record audio, you can need good quality external microphone, come up with narration script early in the development process and also prepare your voice for recording. With the help of Paradiso composer, you can also use editing options like trimming audio, adjusting volume, removing noise, and even silencing an entire section. You can also try to import an existing audio file with Paradiso composer for recording voice-overs.   

  1. Introduce knowledge checks and assessments 

When you create online courses, knowledge checks and assessments are a must! It helps you gauge learners' knowledge gaining ability and gives you the required clarity while making reports and mapping learners' performance. It is also important to add interactive quizzes amidst the content as it drives learners’ engagement and help them retain new information longer. These quizzes and assessments need to be integrated in the course and should be relevant and well written.   

  1. Ensure content accessibility on any platform 

When you create online courses make sure that the course is accessible and readable to everyone on every platform. Courses created with Paradiso Composer play well on any device, including Macs, PCs, smartphones, and tablets. However, before publishing the content, ensure that it displays perfectly on each device type. Now that you’ve planned, designed, and developed your eLearning content, it’s time to pull it all together by publishing your course.   

You can follow these steps and also look into other factors such as user interface and user experience design to make online courses visually more appealing. Similarly, creating a dialogue simulation is also one factor that can help your online course look more realistic. Hope these steps add some planning to run an eLearning business.   

 

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