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Module Summary

It is hoped that you are now ready to collaborate with your instructional design consultant to begin development of your online course. As with any project, creating a shared understanding of the outcome is an important first step. Throughout the design portion of the seminar, you had an opportunity to work with several course design documents, and these will serve as a launching point for our conversations with you going forward. Our first priority will be to help you finalize the design of your course. Then we’ll roll up our sleeves and get to work on development.

In this module, we outlined some of the tasks we can help you with, and you created a draft for the development work that we’ll share in the 6 weeks remaining in the seminar. You now have a course shell to begin developing your modules. Some of the effort required to meet Quality Matters has been taken off your plate by using the pre-made templates, which your instructional design consultant will help you select and integrate into your course. These resources require minimal revision to bring them to production-ready status. There is no expectation that you use the resources or follow the template provided, however.  They are simply tools to jump-start development and allow you to focus on the activities and assessments for your course.

If you have any questions about any of the content in this module, please contact your instructional design consultant. You may now complete the discussion board self-evaluation and module survey below. Review the instructions, then select the links below to begin.

Resources & References

As desired, read or view any of the following to further your understanding or see concepts from different perspectives. Topics are divided into two parts:

• Resources external to the module that can further what you learned from the lessons, plus
• References collected from the entire module.

Course Design

Diamond, R. M. (2008). Designing and assessing courses and curricula: A practical guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Maryland Online (2011). Quality Matters rubric standards 2011-2013 edition with assigned point values. [PDF] Retrieved from http://www.qmprogram.org/files/QM_Standards_2011-2013.pdf

Syllabi

Iowa State’s Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching – Material prepared by Lee Haugen for a learning-centered syllabus workshop.

Ko, S. S., & Rossen, S. (2010). Teaching online: A practical guide, creating an effective online syllabus.  New York: Routledge. [PDF] Retrieved from  http://college.hmco.com/instructors/catalog/walkthroughs/pdf/walk_0618000429_4.pdf

The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach – A book by Judith Grunert O’Brien and Barbara Millis that provides examples of course syllabi.