Design principles for online tutorials

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What is an online tutorial?
3. Why create online tutorials?
4. Demonstration - Two approaches
5. Principles for creating effective tutorials
6. Applying the principles - some examples
7. The process of creating tutorials
8. Practical Hints and Tips
9. Summary
10. References

Why create online tutorials?

Online tutorials can be useful:

• to ensure your learners have a baseline knowledge in particular subjects - where for example 1^st year students are not all bringing the same level of prior knowledge in certain areas
• for creating online tutorials for the more straightforward factual aspects of your subject, thus freeing up face-to-face teaching time for the more complex or contested aspects
• to facilitate consolidation and revision
• to cover other aspects of the curriculum for which there is no time in the timetabled part of the course
• for distancelearning
• to allow learners to study at their own time and their own pace
• scale up or make more flexible training