In all post-secondary courses, students must master large amounts of content. If that content includes high-resolution graphics, animations, and video, in addition to text, the technical demands increase markedly. However, we are now at a stage where extensive development of such study aids is feasible. In short, we are ready to confront the content issue. Further imagine that you have a suitable textbook, but have written study notes to better illustrate the emphasis in your course.
Extensive packaging can represent the lion s share of a project, in both time and dollars.
As an alternative, you can offer your students these new study aids in a straightforward, cost-effective manner. Below I review a few of the simple methods that can be used. The first three styles of packaging work well in electronic as well as printed form. Rest assured, if you are providing students extensive required content, they will want a printed version. Just text If you are providing many pages of text to your students, use a word processor to format the pages, then make a pdf file of the entire document.