Course Creation Bites

3.5 Behind the scenes Course Review

August 16, 2021 Sam Winch Season 3 Episode 5
Course Creation Bites
3.5 Behind the scenes Course Review
Show Notes

Show Notes:

In this episode I'll take you behind the scenes in Kim Dunn's course, Essential Self Care for Psychologists.

Kim is a psychologist who has a large network of psychologists and clearly knows her target audience and their needs.    It makes such a difference when you are going through a program that is written for exactly the people it is intended to reach and help, and that is probably the biggest takeaway of this course review – the more you understand the people you are trying to help the better you can help them.

Firstly, I want to make it very clear that when I do a course review, I am not looking to rip the course apart or find great holes.  I’m looking at it to find those small niggly bits that might prevent your audience from doing the work you want them to do or that might take away from the experience.   Most courses I review have great content. 

Things Kim has done really well:

  1. Used activities that are helpful to her students
  2. Understood the needs of her students
  3. Broken down her content into reasonably sized modules
  4. Asked questions that genuinely make people stop and think

In terms of user experience some of the things she can look at are:

  1. Small spelling and grammar mistakes (that everyone makes)
  2. The length of gaps and spaces in both written and video media
  3. The ways that videos are embedded and the kind of information that is available on and around them

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Action Steps:

What I hope you have taken away today is some of the insights into what I find when I go through a program.   I generally find that the content (physical words) is great – you know your stuff.  Helping you build a course isn’t about you knowing your content though.  The focus needs to be on knowing your audience and then all the little things that impact user experience – the gaps, pauses and the little idiosyncrasies that might break their concentration.

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