Structuring Content: How can I make, find, and use online resources?

Your content provides the necessary information and tools that students need to complete activities and reach learning outcomes. While it can be easy to find and add more and more content to an online course, it's important to ensure that content actually supports your learning outcomes.

Learning Objectives

In this module, we discuss different sources for content, legal issues related to the use of others' content, and how to avoid "scope creep" in your content. By the end of this module, we hope that you will be able to:

explain how content supports your desired learning outcomes instead of leading the course, and
begin to curate your own content and content from other sources based on your outcomes, assessments, and learners' prior knowledge.

Table of Contents

5.1 Gathering, Making, and Structuring Content

5.2 Legally Reusing Content

5.3 Exploring New Content Sources

5.4 Organizing Foundational and Supporting Content

5.5 Commons - Content Library

5.6 Course Importing and Copying

5.5 Content: Resources