Instructive guidelines for developing online EFL courses

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Designing an online course is a two-façade project; it requires technical and pedagogical considerations to make the instruction comprehensive and applicable.

Combining technology and pedagogy creates a fresh and innovative learning experience; however, a mere combination of the two without considering what an online course needs to integrate as components ends up in a disappointing fiasco.

This paper draws course designers‟ attention to the principles of planning, designing, managing and assessing an online course.

It concludes that going online in teaching is initially a promising decision as it meets the expectations of the new generation of learners.

Yet, this decision could not be promising as it initially suggested if the teacher does not consider such components as compelling content, manageable layout, applicable platform, and diverse course loggers