Before constructing an online course, a Web assisted course, or a Web-based course, it is important to consider the many choices available to accomplish your project. In this brief paper, we collect together a few of the choices of greatest urgency. We focus on the various styles and features that can be brought to such a project.
Additional attention is given to large scale deployment.
When undertaking the creation of an online course, numerous decisions must be made before the first words are written. Assume this online course is to be more than a Web version of an assignment sheet with links to a few notes. The initial temptation to begin writing right away should be very soon overcome by the apparent magnitude of the task. The developer must consider most of the logistic details of Web course creation, deployment, and use. Can and online course be cost effective.