If you go to your primary-care physician to have a conversation about how you can reach optimal health levels, you’ll most likely hear that you need to take your vitamins. The human body needs Vitamin A for vision and immune support, B vitamins for energy and red blood cell support, etc.

I’d like to make the radical proposition that if you were to go to your course’s “primary-care physician” (a.k.a. your instructional designer) to have a conversation about how to keep your course “healthy”, you’d also hear about essential vitamins.

So what are these essential course vitamins? What effects do they have on courses? And how do you “give” them to a course? For these answers and more, check back in with my blog.