The questions on the following pages should be used in conjunction with Chapter 8, and address a realcontext that you may be facing, such as designing a new course.It is recommended you work through each question one by one, possibly making notes of youranswers. It is also recommended that you do this in a fairly systematic manner the first two or three timeswhen faced with a possible choice of media for a whole course or program. This could take a few days,allowing time for thinking. Some questions may need to wait until other questions have been answered.It will likely to be an iterative process.After you have worked through the questions, give yourself a day or two if possible before thinkingabout what media or technology will best fit with your course or program. Discuss your thoughts aboutmedia use with other instructors and with any professionals such as an instructional designer or mediadesigner before the design of the course. Leave yourself open to making more final decisions as you startdesigning/developing and delivering the course, with the option of checking back with your notes andmore details in Chapter 8.After the first two or three times of working through the questions, you will be able to be lesssystematic and quicker in making decisions, but the questions and answers to the questions shouldalways be in your head when making decisions about media for teaching.717

if memorization is important, then automated tests such as computer-marked assignmentswith correct answers being provided can be used;

As we shall see, though,MOOCs work best when people are already reasonably well educated.