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The Basics: Crafting Courses that Motivate and Transform

Design impactful learning using modern technology. This introductory course teaches you to create engaging experiences that changes behavior, by understanding purpose and how people learn.
Free
  • Last updated Sep 03, 2025
  • English
  • General Audiences - suitable for all ages

What you'll learn

🌟 What You’ll Learn:

  • Create Your “Why”: Understand the core purpose of your course. Define its value to your audience and align it with their learning needs and motivations.
  • Understand How People Learn: Dive into the science of learning and cognitive psychology to design experiences that align with how the brain processes and retains information.
  • Define Objectives That Drive Action: Go beyond knowledge transfer. Learn to craft measurable, action-oriented learning objectives that guide both your content and your learners' success.
  • Design Meaningful Activities: Explore strategies for creating activities that are not only engaging but also directly tied to your course goals—ensuring every task has purpose and relevance.

Whether for eLearning, classroom, or hybrid environments, this course equips you to design with clarity, creativity, and purpose.


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🌟 What You’ll Learn: Create Your “Why”: Understand the core purpose of your course. Define its value to your audience and align it with their learning needs and motivations.

Understand How People Learn: Dive into the science of learning and cognitive psychology to design experiences that align with how the brain processes and retains information.

Define Objectives That Drive Action: Go beyond knowledge transfer. Learn to craft measurable, action-oriented learning objectives that guide both your content and your learners' success.

Create a variety of learning activities that allow students to actively engage with the material and practice new skills, not just passively absorb information.

Accountability and support are always key elements of any type of program that requires a new way of doing something or changing behavior. How do you hold learners accountable and provide support in an online environment?

Empower learners to be the teacher!

Now we summarize what we have learned - so far. This is only the beginning. There is so much more to take this and make it practical. Take a minute to download the infographic for your reference in the next lesson.

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Creator

Cheryl Johnson
@rwltech Building a Brighter Future Together!
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The Basics: Crafting Courses that Motivate and Transform

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