Title: Escaping boredom in your online courses - eFront Blog
Headings: Escaping boredom in your online courses
Escaping boredom in your online courses
It all starts with the content…
…and it continues with the supplementary content
Learn from the great teachers

Content: from simple illustrations to video, and even down to full blown interactive multimedia applets. Pay the same attention to your supplementary content that you pay to your course copy. It’s not something superfluous, it’s an inseparable part of your course material. Choose interesting, engaging illustrations and images that attract the students attention and serve to further illustrate your subject. Take advantage of the sound and video capabilities modern LMS offer. If you’re teaching a foreign language, for example, you can spice up your lessons with popular songs in that language or some comic sketch video. Check popular social media platforms and multimedia sites like YouTube frequently. An up-to-date cultural reference such as a viral video will get your students far more engaged than some contrived made-up example. Tests and quizzes, the dread of every student, can also be powerful tools for engagement, if you add some gamification elements to them. Organize learning games and contests and try to have the students compete for something besides their final grades.