course_design

Budget cuts don't mean the need for course design goes away. in fact, the interest in Distance Education grows as people seek ways to reach students (and their tuition dollars!) without adding to the classroom space shortage concerns. In this discussion, learn about the variety of online course delivery methods, project management tools, team communication tools, and support issues from the perspective of those who live and breathe instructional media production.
 * ITS Teaching and Learning Interactive : Course Design & Support (Megan Bell, Production and Project Manager, Teaching and Learning Interactive, UNC-CH)**

Perkins 218, 10:45 - 11:30 am

Session notes:

-team works on a wide range of projects for faculty, from individual models or videos to total reworking or creation of an online course

Institute of Aging uses faculty members around the state at UNC member campuses four modules with each having 2 faculty authors some authors included PowerPoint, Captivate, Word documents created a template for the authors to use with a page for accessing the modules each module has the same template with four sections - gave the authors guidelines for how much time they had, getting goals, parameters for quizzing and feedback

described collaborative process - used a two-column av script that faculty would use "track changes" to modify in MS Word (they looked at Final Draft AV, but didn't work for faculty to use since they don't typically have the software) took about 4.5-5 months for projects (also worked on other projects during this time) had regular instructional design meetings, drafts so faculty understand the process and can catch problems early

Spanish 101 gateway course have a classroom version and a hybrid version have issues with classroom space and increasing enrollments; project is to take the whole class online currently teaching the hybrid versions - small group face to face meetings, online textbooks and materials - did assessments and no significant differences in learning - fairly high user satisfaction and performed better on written compared to the classroom version - 83 sections of class each semester part of challenge has been how to reduce number of instructor hours involved in managing the course for student feedback, etc using Elluminate for student peer sessions, sessions with instructor built in Sakai - course coordinator manages all the sections not much multimedia content; focusing more on best practices for teaching courses online as a roadmap for the faculty (ie, keep students engaged with low impact interaction often to keep them engaged, etc) using it as a gateway course since the students are at different levels; some from professional schools getting basic understanding of the language for their professional degree

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