Before you get started
Get the low-down on online medical education in this chapter: basic principles, goals, and an intro to the process of building a kickass course.
- Before you get started intro
- Teachers are leaders
- The flipped classroom
- What's the best medium for my message?
- Avoiding the expert trap
- The Feynman Technique
- The Pareto principle
- Length matters
- Before you get started quiz
Preparing course content
Planning is the hardest part. Here, you’ll learn how to get clarity on what you want to accomplish and how to avoid falling into the all-too-common expert trap.
- Preparing course content intro
- The course plan: defining your north star
- The table of contents: breaking it down
- The importance of scripts: planning every word
- Hemingway and the magic of editing
- Preparing course content quiz
Course design—telling a visual story
Not all videos are created equally. Here, you’ll learn key psychological and design principles that’ll take your course from super lame to utterly irresistible.
- Course design—telling a visual story intro
- Less is more
- Basic design principles
- Hands-on design principles
- Creating a template
- Image types (part 1)
- Image types (part 2)
- Where to get images
- Course design—telling a visual story quiz
Recording a high-end product
iPhone or DSLR? That’s just one of a billion questions you’ll have answered in this chapter. Learn how to record videos at studio-level quality and edit them yourself.
- Recording a high-end product intro
- Recording your voice
- Choosing hardware for audio recording
- Screen recording using a Mac
- Screen recording using Windows
- Sound engaging in your recordings
- Consider the environment when recording yourself on camera
- Choosing hardware for video recordings
- Editing your videos using a Mac
- Editing your videos using Windows
- Recording a high-end product quiz
Testing as a learning tool
This final chapter is all about facilitating the learning retrieval process and how to write multiple choice questions that’ll take your course to the next level.
- Testing as a learning tool intro
- Introducing retrieval practice
- Facilitating retrieval in an online course
- The importance of feedback
- Writing five-star multiple choice questions
- Testing as a learning tool quiz
- Teaching Masterclass: Creating an Online Course outro