Each decision in creating your digital learning environment is essential. Some are evident like the first two, and some are not like designing for the platform you will use for your learning. You can use many different platforms in today’s market for your learners to receive your instructions and provide their learning examples. Finding the correct one for your particular assignment is an important task.
Each platform has its strengths and weaknesses. Some are great at collecting the evidence of learning, but it is not quite good at providing detailed instructions. Some allow videos, images, and other media types to be used but don’t collect anything from your learners. The first two steps completed a basic design, and you have a basic idea of how you want this lesson to run. With this knowledge, look at the different platforms you can access and decide which one you want to use. If you need to use a lot of media in your instructions and provide further learning examples, a website might be the best. Your instructions might be clear, and you want the learners to focus on those and a rubric, then an LMS or online document is the best choice. There are many different ways to get your learners started and working.
There are some things to think about when looking at the platform. What do you need to include in your instructions? If you need several media pieces, some image examples of work, a heavily formatted or designed list of instructions needs to be a strength of the platform. If you will be collecting many different learning articles and need that step to be easy for your learners, that needs to be a strength. By thinking through the design platform, you make it easier for you and your learners to successfully work through the learning experience.