Structure online course packages in courses, chapters

Mar 08, 2012

Hi all,

we are currently setting up online learning courses for our software products and have a discussion about structuring the courses, respectively how to name the structure units.

For our classic instructure-led classroom trainings we have the following:

Course:

          Lesson 1:

                Chapter 1.1

                 Chapter 1.2

          Lesson 2:

                 Chapter 2.1

                 Chapter 2.2

For our online learning courses it makes sense to have every lesson (1-max.2 hrs duration) converted in an online learning course

So the structure would be:

Course 1:

     Chapter 1.1

     Chapter 1.2

and so on.

I am fine with this structure, but some of my colleagues do not feel comfortable with the term "Chapter". What do you think?Is chapter an appropriate term for structuring an online course or is this more related to books like novels.

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Caroline

3 Replies
Brian Duvall

I wouldn't have a strong concern about using the term Chapter, though I'd lean towards a term like Lesson.  I'd be more concerned about any course that's 2 hours long.  I think that's tough on an individual to sit through and remain engaged.  You may want to consider sub-dividing things a little further to make the lessons shorter.

Caroline Rogg

Thanks for the feedback.

Most courses are about one hour.

To my understanding a Lesson is around a complete topic, lets say " How to load data in the software". This would be the content for one online course.

But this lesson "How to load data" is subdivided into several parts like:

-Introduction -> 10 minutes

-The data structure -> 10 minutes

-Loading an individual file -> 10 minutes

-how to create subsets -> 10 minutes

-summary -> 10 minutes

I am not sure how to name this parts: sections/topics/units/chapters?

Thanks Caroline

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