Recipe for Quality On-Line Tutorials

To Design a Tutorial Product for Any Subject

  1. Take the time to try to comprehend the entire universe of the subject you wish to teach, and then decide upon the scope of this tutorial and where it fits into that larger context.
  2. List the types of cognitive information you wish to teach: text (language-based skills), graphics, and acoustics.
  3. List and sketch-out a tentative organizational structure and sequence of presentation.
  4. List the desired learning outcomes and performance goals, and identify the learning tasks to get there.
  5. Define the nature and content of test items to measure achievement of learning and performance goals.
  6. Collect and file images, sounds, and text resources you will need to present and test.

Further detailed instructions and authoring tools are available to those under contract.

© 1994, Joseph L. Scott, Ph.D., Germanic Languages & Literatures: josephlscott@hotmail.com


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