Once you have developed your online learning programme, the time has come to implement and operate the programme. As part of your plan, you will have decided on the mode of delivery. Will the cost be delivered purely online or in blended mode?
This will affect how you operate the programme and the choices you make, particularly in the area of facilitating learning.
However carefully you plan for your programme, you will not get everything perfectly right at the start, so it is imperative to put in place a programme of evaluation to establish how well your learning programme is delivering on the goals that you have set for it. To evaluate your programme, you will need to collect the data needed, and you can do this in a variety of ways. However, once you have gathered the information and analysed it, you must act upon it and make changes to improve the programme.
In addition, no subject stands still, and so you need a plan to ensure that the content is kept up to date especially in those areas where it can move very quickly.
In this final module, we will consider how to facilitate, evaluate, and improve your online programme.