Good practice in designing e-learning courses

1. Background - aims for the course
2. Intended learning outcomes - what do you want students to learn?
3. assessment - what assessment framework meets those aims (apparently, we tend to think about this too late, and students tend to think about if first - what do I need to do to pass?)
4. Content - what topics, what to read, in what order - this is presumably the 'traditional' bit we think of when 'writing a lecture'.
5. course structure -
6. Teaching and learning design - what are you going to do? what exercises/activities?
7. classroom - outcomes for particular sessions - this is probably going to be a bit different online, but there should probably be an equivalent step.
8. evaluation - how are we going to evaluate the quality or sucess of this course (and capture things we might need to change in the future)?

The Cranfield version is cyclical and includes

1. needs analysis
   
2. aims and outcomes
3. course structure
4. course content
5. Learning design
6. student and tutor support systems
7. assessment and procedures
8. development
9. implementation
10. evaluation