Objetos Educacionais
A range of learning objects to boost student engagement.
About the course
Answer these questions:
Do you create online courses with only videos, texts, PDFs and multiple-choice exercises?
Would you like to engage your student's brain more with more playful activities?
Do you want to increase the efficiency and engagement of your course and of the teaching-learning process?
Well then, you need to better understand what learning objects are or, at least, how to add variety the right way within your courses! Discover a range of learning objects to use in your courses and boost student engagement!
WHAT ARE LEARNING OBJECTS?
In essence, every resource used to teach online can be considered a learning object — from the most basic ones like text and video to more complex interactive resources.
This course aims to show you the possibilities you have within the digital environment, to get away a bit from sameness and the predictable. You're online — the possibilities are many.
Learn to engage your students more by creating courses with more interactive and interesting content.
BY THE END OF THIS COURSE, YOU'LL LEARN:
Understand what learning objects are and how they impact teaching and learning in online courses
What the types of learning objects are
How to apply the most different types of objects in your online courses to improve engagement and efficiency
A list of tools for you to create the learning objects presented in the course
WHO IS YOUR INSTRUCTOR?
My name is Ivan Chagas, I've been an instructor since 2016 and gathered 8,000 students, in courses in Portuguese, English and Spanish. I've worked with educational content for 10 years, organizing events, and I was an education manager at the largest innovation school in Curitiba. Today I work full-time as an instructional designer and content creator, owner of my own agency.
Course content
Introduction: presenting the concept
What learning objects are, why they matter, the 3 categories and how to pair the object with the lesson's goal.
Expository objects (the basics)
Text, video, accordion, juxtaposition and hotspot.
Active objects (participating)
Scenario branching, drag-and-drop, dialogue cards, sorting paragraphs and finding words.
Task objects (assessing)
Quizzes, crossword, find the hotspot, drag the words, flashcards and fill in the blank.
Implementing in practice
How these objects are built inside the LMS, to inspire your own project.
What you will learn
- check_circleUnderstand what learning objects are and how they impact teaching and learning in online courses
- check_circleWhat the types of learning objects are
- check_circleHow to apply the most different types of objects in your online courses to improve engagement and efficiency
- check_circleA list of tools for you to create the learning objects presented in the course
What is included
- smart_display1 hour on-demand video
- article4 articles
- devicesAccess on mobile and TV
- all_inclusiveFull lifetime access
- workspace_premiumCertificate of completion
Ivan Chagas
Instructional designer, educational product manager and content creator. He worked at Amazon, Cisco, Sovos and Aldeia, and today works mainly as an e-learning developer — a LearnDash specialist building AI-based solutions already in production. More than 20,000 students across four languages.