Online Course Development Guide
Instructional Support Services would like to welcome faculty
to the field of distance education. This guide will assist
you in planning an online course, designing material, developing
and organizing content, and assessing a completed course in
an effort to create meaningful learning experiences for students.
This process may seem like a lot of work compared to conventional
face-to-face classes. Fortunately, we have an organized and
professional support staff ready to assist you in any way.
The guide is divided into five different areas. Each area
is dedicated to a specific principle of instructional design;
planning, designing, developing, preparing, and assessing.
View the graphic representation
of the entire design process.
Planning the Course |
How do you translate face-to-face content to a completely
digital medium? What can you do to encourage student
discussion in an online environment? How can you offer
fair assessments and proper feedback using asynchronous
communication? In planning an online course, you should
answer all these questions. Your answers will culminate
into a project plan that will clarify how you want
a course to look from the student's perspective. If
you have any questions about the project plan, please
contact the Instructional Designer Patrick McCormick
of Instructional Support Services at (361) 570-4256.
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Designing the Course |
Assuming the course material is not already in a
digital form, you will need to transfer your course
content into HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) using
any of a variety of HTML composers. This section of
the course development guide will offer insight into
creating an online syllabus, learning modules, assessments,
as well as incorporating multimedia into your course.
You can direct any multimedia and HTML questions to
our Multimedia Designer Beverley Hoerig of Instructional
Support Services at (361) 570-4282.
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Developing the Course |
Working with a designated online support technician,
you will build your course home page, organizer pages
(if used), upload course material to the file management
system, and integrate content into the course. If
this is your first online course, please contact the
designated online support technician before attempting
to upload material. The online support technician
you contact is determined by school.
| School
of Arts and Sciences: |
Kristy
Holly |
(361)
570-4272 |
hollyk@uhv.edu |
| School
of Business: |
Mary
Borden |
(361)
570-4238 |
bordenm@uhv.edu |
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Vicki
Causey |
(281)
275-3334 |
causeyv@uhv.edu |
| School
of Education: |
Patty
Donna |
(361)
570-4253 |
donnap@uhv.edu |
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Preparing for the Semester |
At the beginning of each semester, you will need
to revise and prepare your course by designing new
components, developing communication tools, and
assessing content. During this phase you set up
your release dates on course material, course calendar,
chat rooms, and discussion topics.
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Course Assessments |
The final area of development is course assessment.
Several checklists are available to ensure that
the course has everything necessary to create meaningful
learning experiences for your students.
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