Design learning activities that meet your objectives.
What are your students' learning styles?
What are the multiple intelligences (Howard Gardner's theory)?
Left Brain vs. Right Brain education-

	Cognitive learners like to be challenged.  They enjoy predicting, analyzing, and creating.  Planning activities that allow students to formulate, plan, compare, contrast, etc. are all ideal applications for cognitive learners.
	Social learners prefer to collaborate with others.  They learn by observing the behaviors of others (through observation of modeling).  They also enjoy teaching or coaching their peers.  Designing activities that allow for online group projects, discussions, and peer feedback are ideal for social learners.
	Behavioral learners thrive when given plenty of opportunity to practice and receive timely feedback.  Being given rewards and consequences is the primary motivation for these learners.  Incorporating frequent "practice quizzes" in Blackboard or other activities in which students can receive timely feedback is important.  Also, establishing a system for extra credit or an incentive in your online course, could also effectively engage behavioral learners.
	Visual engagement can be achieved  by using rich graphics, videos, diagrams, and flowcharts in your onine course.
	Auditory engagement can be achieved by adding audio to your PowerPoints, capturing the audio and desktop activity of your lectures, and enhancing presentations with music.
	Tactile engagement is more difficult to achieve in the online environment, however recent research has shown that the use of virtual worlds and interactive simulations shows promise for engaging the more tactile or kinesthetic learners.