In this book, Rebecca Frost Cuevas synthesizes best practices from cognitive psychology, instructional design, learning theory, and information processing theory with her decades of hand-on expertise into clear guidelines that can be applied quickly to any type of content geared for any target audience.

Part I: Big ideas about learning and teaching online -- What is learning? -- What is teaching? -- How to teach effectively online -- Part II: The course design formula -- How the formula works : an overview -- Step 1: Get clear on the transformation your course delivers -- Step 2: Discover the specific type of learning your course contains -- Step 3: Set up modules to support your course's learning goal -- Step 4: Plan and set up your lessons -- Step 5: Select your media and build your course -- Part three: Prepare your course for success -- Make your materials easy to understand -- Make your lessons motivating -- Make your learner the focus as you build your course -- Make sure your course is working for all your learners -- Part IV: Test and refine to make your course shine -- How to adapt face-to-face learning to online (and how not to) -- How to create a transformative online course -- How to create effective, skillful, and elegant learning.