End of text based online courses

Text-based online courses are just bad courses.

Every presenter at our recent faculty development conference advocated more multimedia in online courses. It's pretty unanimous among online experts such as Les Howles of the University of Wisconsin.

The problem is that only about 20-25% of online courses have multimedia now. Which is why so many are advocating for more multimedia. 

It's clearly the end of text based online courses.  It cannot happen fast enough.

Faculty buying our books at recent faculty development conference in Savannah.

Comments

[Tim Draves]

Text-based online courses make as much sense as text-based gaming....they don't use available technology. It's like the boy in the old "Give a boy a fish and feed him for a day, or teach him to use a rod and reel, and feed him for a lifetime." You gave him everything he needed, but did not use the technology available and he ate the bait.