Online Knowledge Transmission:
Ways to Enhance Online Lecture Notes

Embed Alternative Resources: Within your presentation, provide alternative vehicles for making sense of content and levels of knowledge --e.g. using links to other web-based resources, employing graphic representations, providing multimedia illustrations (e.g. with brief audio or video clips).

Invite Active Responding: Give opportunities to respond to material, to process information, to use terms rather than simply copy facts as presented.

Provide Immediate Feedback: To the extent possible, follow responses with timely consequences --e.g. by answering a question with affirmation or correction, a choice with a result, an error with remediation.

Use Small "Chunks": Present material in small enough increments to assure comprehension and frequent response.

Allow Student Self-Assessment: Allow students to monitor their own progress -- e.g. with short "knowledge checks" or quizzes, or collaborative review exercises.

Enable Self-Pacing: When possible, let learners decide and control how fast or slow they proceed through material, to repeat or skip segments as their specific needs dictate.

Encourage Real-Time Authentic Practice: Give learners opportunities to practice skills learned or to use new knowledge in relevant authentic ways as they move through the material.