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How to Write a Course for VU
Most VU courses run five weeks, with one lesson per week. There is no limit on
lesson length and your lessons can be as indepth as you wish. You can include
GIF or JPG graphics with your lessons as appropriate.
When writing a course, please remember that most VU courses are self-guided,
allowing students to learn at their own pace. But you are welcome to join in
class discussions or answer questions on the classroom discussion
board as your time permits.
Lessons can be created in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect or any
text editor. Our staff will convert your material to HTML
format that is suitable for our website. Or you can create your own Web pages
– just ask us for a template that you can use which reflects the page
design and links appropriate for your classroom.
As you are writing your course, remember that each lesson should include:
Tutorial: The main body of your lesson.
Suggested Reading: Further reading from a suggested
text or links to readings on other web sites.
Discussion Topic: Students can join in
interactive discussion using the classroom bulletin board.
Homework: A research project, a quiz or some other
learning challenge for the week. Homework is optional for students and is
self-evaluated — you are not expected to grade homework papers!
For convenient reference, here are two sample lessons from courses recently
written for VU:
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These are examples of how a course might begin.
The lessons are fairly short; longer, more indepth lessons are
preferable.
When you finish writing Lesson One, please forward your material to us for review.
We may be able to offer helpful suggestions that you can
use as you write the remaining lessons.
We pay a small honorarium of $200US
for courses that we accept. You may request
that this amount be paid to you or donated to your favorite charity.
This honorarium is a one-time payment and is paid upon acceptance
of the completed course. In return, you grant to VU an irrevocable,
royalty-free, non-exclusive right to publish, modify, adapt and display
the content in any form or media, subject to the following exclusion: you
retain all rights to publish the content in book or
magazine format, on CD, audio tape or film, and/or to offer the course
in a traditional classroom setting as you wish, with the proviso that
content may not be
hosted on another website without VU's consent.
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