Readings on Developing and Adapting Content
- Online Instructional Materials and Course Organization - Part 1
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This is a section of the etext Online Course Development Basics and includes the 4 pages listed below.
- Identifying and Evaluating Instructional Materials
- Legally Reusing Content
- Developing Your Own Instructional Materials
- Visual Design Isn’t Just for Slides
- This is also a page of the etext, Online Course Development Basics.
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Academic Slide Design by Anne Fandrey
This is a very helpful and easy-to-read book with a lot of visual slide examples. You can download the whole book by individual chapters on her website. While the entire book is helpful, we specifically recommend the following chapters.
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Slide Design
- Unbulleting 1: Visual Designs That Aren't Bullets (PDF, 8 Mb)
- The Power of White Space, the joy of uncluttering (PDF, 6 Mb)
- Unbulleting 2: The Assertion-Evidence Structure, a research-based instructional strategy (PDF, 8Mb)
- Selecting Illuminative Visuals, to make sure your images are supporting learning (PDF, 8 Mb)
- Effective Typography for Teaching and Learning, to make sure your text is easily readable including both font and formatting (Start on page 128, PDF, 10 Mb)
- Bullet Point Master Class for when bullet points are the answer (PDF, 8 Mb)
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Presenting or Recording Video
- Techniques for Guiding Attention (PDF, 9 Mb)
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