Week 7 Reflection

As I began to think about creating a unit for an online course, few things come to my mind. The key I suppose, is to make a course that can caters to various types of students no matter what background they are from. In addition, not everyone has access to all types of technologies, such as smartphones or laptops. My biggest worry is how to make the course "fun" and engaging while having just as powerful contents. There are guidelines such as iNACOL that we can follow, but to be truly effective in class, I think they need more than meeting minimum requirements. For example, although I love this class, I'm not sure if it'd be just as effective for typical K-12 students. From my experience, I just don't think students would participate more than the minimum requirement (i.e. number of posts per week). Not all students engage in multiple discussions on a discussion-based board online. It'd be the biggest challenge to have an online course both interesting and academic.