Educators' perspective of online course design and delivery.

摘要: Background: With advances in technology, educators are increasingly involved the delivery of online courses. This paper reports a qualitative descriptive study from educators’ perspective developing and delivering fully course to undergraduate health science students.Method: The authors engaged reflective conversations about which were audio-taped, resultant transcripts analysed thematically.Results: Two main themes emerged: (1) Arousing students’ interest, represented central motivator formulation implementation course, (2) Working with larger numbers students, highlighted most significant challenge encountered during delivery. There considerable workload issues for courses attempt use material that is relevant, applied interests, requires collaboration, includes learning activities linked sequential assessment. Time must be allowed consistent, frequent focused engagement ...