Tip #2 HyFlex, Hybrid eLearning: How to Connect

Best Practice Tips for Instructional eLearning Design: Tip #2 Clear Communication

Online, Hybrid & HyFlex instruction is at an all time high.  Best Practice Tips for Educators series provide Universal Design Thinking, with accessibility features that assist in Clear Communication, in compliance for Federal and State initiatives working towards American Disability Act of 1973 and 2018 508 Amendment requirements. UDL Downloadable Guide found on CAST.org

Instructional eLearning Design Podcast: Clear Communication Part 2

Best Practice Tips for Instructional eLearning Design: Tip #2 Clear Communication. Part 2 Digging deeper into best practice tips for creating an inclusive syllabus. By setting expectations for students, we introduce course goals and objectives, and how these should be consistent. More tips on engagement strategies for online learners. 

Instructional eLearning Design Podcast: Clear Communication Plan Part 3

Best Practice Tips for Instructional eLearning Design: Tip #2 Clear Communication. Part 3. Digging deeper into best practice tips for creating a Clear Communication Plan. By setting expectations for instructors to student, student to content and student to student communication we provide opportunities for subject matter expert engagement, social learning that provides learners with a better learning outcome and tips on engagement strategies for online content. 

Instructional eLearning Design Podcast: Tip #2 Clear Communication. Part IV

 Clarity & Consistency provide communication expectations for each section of the syllabus. By providing an accessible template for educators to begin their course design, the content layout   can be consistent and by paying close attention to course objectives, naming conventions, dates, instructions and correspondence expectations are clear. This is in direct correlation to both universal design thinking and accessible WCAG 2.0 principles and features. 

Instructional eLearning Design Best Practice Tip #1 Changing Roles for Educators

Our next tip focuses on the role of our Educators. We want to find out if their role is changing in our discussion of building better learning environments for our online learners and the best way to remove barriers of learning content by providing UX/UI principles that implement Accessibility features in course planning