Free online course from Future Learn : Introduction to Content Design

Discover the fundamentals of content design. Learn about user-centred content that's easy for everyone to understand and access.

About the course

Future Learn e-Learning platform offers a free online course as an introduction to digital content design.

This course allows the student to understand the main concepts of designing effective targeted content for the user, and to develop his skills and self-confidence to be able to design accessible content, provided that it is supported by user research and written in plain and simple English.

The learner will also learn about the role of the content designer, learn the value of user trip mapping, content prototyping, and how to use data to continuously improve and duplicate its content.

The course includes a review of the way content designers work in government sectors and public institutions together, and provides an opportunity for learners to share practical advice and best practices with each other.

The course lasts for four weeks, with an average of four hours of study per week.

Who is this course for

1. This course is specially designed for emerging content designers, and for everyone with a job that includes working on content design.
2. The rules and ideas to be covered in the course are also useful for content design professionals who work in all sectors.

Course topics

The course covers the important principles of content design, based on the Data and Digital Technology (DDaT) framework, including:

1. content design as a profession, including what content design is, what a content designer does and the skills they need
2. a focus on users, including accessibility, user needs, user research, journey mapping and prototyping
3. producing good digital content, including using plain English and structuring content to make it easy to understand and navigate
4. improving your content, including managing the content lifecycle, and how to use data to improve and iterate content and influence stakeholders
5. improving your career, including understanding the different roles within product teams and joining a content community

Course objectives

By the end of the course, the student will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to do the following:

1. demonstrate the principal skills and knowledge needed for user-centred content design
2. apply principles of accessibility to content design
3. contribute to the content community by sharing your experience and insights
4. interpret common data measures in order to make content decisions
5. reflect on your own skills and professional development

Course costs

The trainee can register for free for the course to be available for six weeks, Or, he can upgrade the course for $ 69 which allows him to: 

1. Access to this course for as long as it’s on FutureLearn
2. Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once you’re eligible

Or, he can get an unlimited one-year subscription for $ 249.99, which allows him to:

1. Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year
2. A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once you’re eligible
3. The freedom to keep access to any course you've achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on FutureLearn
4. The flexibility to complete your choice of short courses in your own time within the year

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