Templates and libraries of learning modules automate the task for novice authors. The trend in the industry is to take the modularized approach a step further. For example, Academic Systems, the leading provider of interactive, multimedia instructional programs for college students, is licensing content from educators and instructors who can provide multimedia, discipline-specific course supplements for inclusion in the ActiveContent online library. This new licensing program and others like it leverage faculty knowledge of a particular discipline with Web-building expertise among colleagues throughout the country. Today s online learning technology is really about choice.
Instructors can combine online content and activities with other types of course delivery.
By Jacquelyn Barker Tulloch, Ed.