Teachers should create discussion boards so students can share experiences related to the subject matter with one another to enhance their learning experience, according to "Hybrid Learning," a report from the Third International Conference on Hybrid Learning. Students can also use discussion boards for better understanding of concepts that are hard for them to grasp by reading other viewpoints on the subject.
Online courses create "paper" trails the same way giving tests and homework in a traditional class would. It may be even better in the online world because it is stored in the system's memory. Both students and teachers can use this stored documentation to go back and review, as many times as needed, the material covered in the course. As Melvin Silberman writes in "One Hundred and One Ways to Make Training Active," online learning systems create "unprecedented documentation of what was taught, referenced, discussed, and decided in an online course."
In some courses, the entire course is available to the student to learn at his own pace. He may be tempted to run through all the games, tests, tutorials and assignments quickly. This could result in information overload and confusion. The student may be hurting himself and not actually learning the fundamentals of the training class. Teachers should consider making sections available only after students have had time to digest previous sections. Students should pace themselves to be sure they have learned and understood the previous materials before moving on.
Some concepts may be hard to understand. Utilize the help feature or tips section provided by the online tutorial. Even if the material is grasped, reading through the additional information section, sidebars, or hyperlinked text can enhance understanding. Teachers should find ways to plant these clues into the online tutorials. Help sections can include a glossary of terms, historical background and examples.