The Emotional Design of Online Courses to Promote Learner Engagement

The study intended to integrate intelligent technologies to the emotional design of online courses to enhance learner engagement in online education. Guided by Emotional Design Theory, it elaborated the rationale of the emotional design of online courses, and then proposed that with the support of artificial intelligent technologies, the emotional design can be actualized by following the principles of visualization, interactivity and personalization, and applying the strategies of constructing emotional online learning resources, organizing emotionally charged learning activities and managing an emotional online learning environment. It was held that the principles and strategies proposed are able to endow learners with a full range of intelligent emotional companionship and interaction. Conclusively, a tentative operational framework for the emotional design of online courses to promote learner engagement was established, providing a referential approach for the sustainable development of scaled and personalized online education.