Welcome to our audio course template! Feel free to duplicate and make this your own (you can find it in Notion here).
This is a template designed specifically for an asynchronous audio course. but can easily be used for other kinds of asynchronous courses. We have two sections:

1. Let’s get to now your course
2. Course lesson structure

Enjoy and may the Force be with you.

Section 1: Let’s get to know your course

Example below, feel free to duplicate this template and write your own.

Course name: A history of the Force

Instructor name: Yoda (Not Baby Yoda)

Instructor bio (a link to a CV/website/Linkedin works as well): Yoda is a long time practicing Jedi, some call him the most ancient Jedi to live. He’s taught at prestigious universities of the Force, including his small academy on Dagobah and the Jedi temple on Coruscant.

Course objectives:

• Learners will know the main historical stages of the force wars
• Learners will be able to analyze the different actors and make comparables to current events

🏆 Pro tip: Make objectives concrete by using the appropriate adjectives regarding your material from Bloom’s Taxonomy. Will students remember something? Understand it? or will they be expected to apply it as well? By making your objective concrete, this will help you structure your course content and what concepts should be repeated often.

Brief description of the course: What led up to the Jedi and Sith wars? Who are these mysterious Force wielders and what is the Force anyway? In this course we’ll cover all those topics. You’ll learn:

• The history of the Force
• Influential figures in the history of the Force
• Key struggles between the Jedi and the Sith
• What led to the Revenge of the Sith and the Return of the Jedi

Course lesson structure

Alpe courses are guided by some of the following principles drawn from the pedagogical and game design worlds.

• Variable difficulty: Lessons shouldn’t always be the same length and difficulty. We recommend following a longer, more technical lesson with a short and fun one. This helps learners stay motivated and feel they are making progress.
• Interleaving: Complex and important topics should be addressed at several points throughout the course and from different angles, leveraging the principle of interleaving to make sure these concepts stick.
• Repetition: Make sure to repeat key concepts and topics throughout different lessons, and not only in the same lesson.
• Number of lessons is flexible – but shouldn’t be shorter than 4 or longer than 20.
• Storytelling: it’s helpful to think of a compelling narrative for your entire course. Who’s the hero? What are the challenges they face? How will they be transformed by the end of the course? Your hero can be an actual story you use to bring the material to life or it can be your students on their own learning journey.

🏆 Pro tip: Start your course outline by sketching in broad strokes: main topics, how they connect (an information tree works great to show what topics depend on other topics). Highlight for yourself the main, interesting and fun points. After you’ve done that, you can start focusing and breakdown actual lesson structure.

Online course lesson structure

Below is an example of the lesson structure for an online course:

Lesson number	Lesson name	Lesson description	Length
1	Trailer: Welcome to The Force Introduction to instructor & course	Leave this for once you’ve finished the first few lessons.	~3
2	Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader: The Force as a tool for good or evil	Start your course with a bang! Drop the learner into the most interesting part and what they really want to know about. You can fill in the backstory in the next lessons once learners are invested. In this example, learners will be dropped into a discussion on the Force before they fully understand what the Force is or where it came from. And that’s ok! Showing learners what they don’t know is a great way to spark curiosity. The end of this lesson should also let learners know what the entire course is about and where they’ll be when they finish it.	~20
3	The history of the Force Basics #1	Go back in time and back to basics.This is a good lesson to start foreshadowing complex topics to leverage the interleaving effect CTA: Add a section that challenges students to apply what they’ve learned, even if they don’t yet have all the tools	~25
4	Powerful Force users & their influence Basics #2	wrap up the basics and make sure to reference topics learned in lesson 1.	~15
5	The Force wars: Early Sith & Jedi	Main course topic #1	~25
6	The Force wars: The Sith comeback	Main course topic #2. Now that learners have completed 6 lessons, this is a good place to force them to apply what they’ve learned and generate the realization of what they’ve learned and accomplished so far.	~25
7	Why I love the Sith	This is a great place to change it up: a personal take, an interview, or a case study.Review of lessons 5-6 from a different angle.	~15
8	The rise of the Jedi	Main course topic #3	~22
9	The revenge of the Sith	Main course topic #4	~25
10	Return of the Jedi	Bringing it all together. Make sure to add a course review section and a call to action	~17

Audio course structure

There you have it! A complete online audio course template. If you’re starting out building a cohort based course or an online audio course, this template is at your service. Make sure to take into account all the principles of learning we’ve implemented: Storytelling, interleaving, variable difficulty and repetition.

Good luck!