In Chapter 1: Start Here, you begin your journey to create an online course. The chapter includes the workbook orientation, a description of our Change-adept Course Creation Process, the workbook roadmap, and an introduction to the role of self-reflection in the workbook.

In Chapter 4: Course Destination, you will choose the course you will work on. You will identify the contexts of your adult learners and decide how these contexts will influence your course creation. You will also choose topics and skill areas for your course as well as a course destination and possible theme to unify your course.

In Chapter 11: Course Start Here, you will create Start Here for your course by choosing welcome and engagement strategies, as well as orientation strategies. You will end the chapter by uploading all of your course items to your learning management system.

In Chapter 9: Feedback, you will choose the focus and timing of your formative and summative feedback. You will determine how peer feedback will be incorporated into your course and how learners will use the feedback. You will create or revise a feedback tool to use in your learning activity, which you will finalize in this chapter.

In Chapter 5: Course Map, you will draw a course map that provides you with an overview of your course topics and helps you more easily identify missing topics, irrelevant topics, and important connections that are not easily visible in an outline. You will group topics together based on the connections you have identified and finalize your course theme.

In Chapter 3: Adult Learning Principles, we explain that all postsecondary learners are adult learners. You will explore our view of adult learning that includes cognitive, social, and emotional aspects. These three aspects are then woven into our adult learning process. A discussion of adult learning assumptions follows, with suggestions on how to apply those assumptions in your online course. We also introduce the application of semiotics for inclusion of diverse learners. We conclude the chapter by highlighting the importance of resources and the impact of power on your learners and addressing the validity of some commonly held beliefs about learning.

Congratulations, you have reached your destination! You have created an online course and placed it in your LMS.

In Chapter 7: Learning Activities, you will begin creating a learning activity, which is the vehicle through which course topics are learned, skills are strengthened, and milestones are achieved, leading learners to the course destination. Learning activities involve self-reflection, dialogue, and application within the context of a realistic, relevant, and meaningful experience. In this chapter, you will explore experiential and collaborative strategies for developing learning activities.

In Chapter 2: Prepare Yourself, you will prepare yourself for your journey by exploring self-reflective practice and the role of mindfulness. Self-reflection and mindfulness are important skills that are integral to learning. You are given the opportunity to engage in self-reflection throughout the workbook. In this chapter, you will also consider the impact of instructor presence on your adult learners.

In Chapter 12: Course Evaluation and Revision Plan, you will review each module you have created as well as your course as a whole. You will consider circumstances that may require you to revise your course during the semester when learners are actively taking the course. You will then develop a plan for evaluating your course, drawing on various sources of feedback data.