Design of Online Courseware for Autonomous Learning

Online courseware can be classified into three categories by its application model,including:application for imparting teaching,application for autonomous learning and application for blending learning.In distance education,it is needed to design and develop online courseware for autonomous learning.This kind of online courseware contains six components of instructional design,including:learning contents,expanding learning resources,instructional strategy,motivational strategy,learning guidance and learning evaluation.This article analyzes the method of design of each components,and sums up a model for the instructional design of online courseware.