[ACCESS News] Online course revisions

[PATRICIA BASSETT]

Julie
 
We use a content expert (professor) working with an assigned instructional designer to develop and design our online courses.  We have a development agreement that is signed by the dean, the professor, and myself to begin this process. After the course is ready for delivery it is reviewed and everyone signs off before it is sent to the Provost's office for final approval. The professor is given a stipend as part of the agreement. The first time it is taught the instructional designer continues to work as an assistant in the course to make formative upgrades as needed. At the end of the course, the instructional designer and faculty member meet to discuss what changes are needed before the course is offered again.  Those revisions are handled by the instructional designer.
 
We are attempting to create lessons independent of text, making content as generic as possible.  This allows us to repurpose the content and only upgrade the personal intructor pieces.  We are just lunching our gen ed core this summer. No full programs can be offered without this being in place. We are scheduled to review this content every academic year initially, but my plan is to put all online review into a 3 year cycle unless a major change is made to the syllabus and/or the learning objectives we have used to design instruction.
 
Pat Bassett
 
Director of OnLine Learning
Palm Beach Atlantic University
West Palm Beach, FL 33416
Office: 561-803-2283
 

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Subject: [ACCESS News] Online course revisions



Hello all,

As I work with faculty to expand our online course offerings, one of the questions I wrestle with is when and how do we make revisions to those courses. It seems that just after a course is completed would be the best time. 

 

I am curious as to how other institutions do this.  Is this part of the teaching contract or a course writer's contract?  Is it a formal or informal process?  

 

I look forward to your responses,

Julie Goetz

Huntington University

Coordinator of Online Programs

(260) 359-4127

 

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