Good E-Learning Guidelines [?]

Here are a list of points that may be useful for e-learning:

1. Small chunks of information: When demonstrating a specific concept keep the number of items small (less than 5) and only present information that can be comprehended within one minute.
   
2. Explain the meaning of something that is to be learnt.
   
3. Elaborate the descriptions (with more small chunks of information)
   
4. An emotional stimulus helps to store memories.
   
5. Organise the information:
• order from simple to complex concepts
  
6. Engage students in interactions that require a degree of effort from them.
   
7. Space rehersals over a period of time.
   
8. Suggest the student suspends their study at certain points throughout the material (or after, say, 50 minutes of learning) and goes away to do something unrelated to the learning.
   
9. Provide simulations that deliver information in small chunks.
   
10. Try to motivate the student.
    
11. Encourage the student to reflect on their learning.
    
12. If appropriate to the group, course and task then consider using social networking / social learning.
    
13. Explicitly test the following (perhaps in separate stages):

• memory / knowledge - recall of the information taught
• understanding - applying their understanding to new scenarios