Category Archives: Instructional Design

Hyperlinks, Online Learning Content & Embedly

Hyperlinking, a critical feature of the internet, is frequently used in online educational content. Typically, the hyperlinks can be identified by text that is in a different colour or underlined.

Online learning content often utilizes hyperlinking to make connections to other online information and website outside the course content. From a student perspective it can be confusing to distinguish which hyperlinks are critical to review as part of the course and which ones are included as optional course links. Course designers can use a number of approaches to minimize or eliminate that confusion. Continue reading