So I guess I would say that the main thing that I suggest when looking at creating online learning is to be very careful about considering the types of interactions that are being designed in the course so what I mean by that is that I'm just shocked by the amount of online learning that I've seen that has just a dump of content out to the learners anybody who has taken a course like that just hates it it's boring, it doesn't engage the person who is sitting there clicking through the screens with the content and it flies in the face of all that we know about good learning so what do we know about good learning? well, one of the things that we know is that it is inherently a social activity.