This course is designed to help new online instructional designers be confident in their knowledge and abilities in guiding new faculty through the online course development process. Participants will discuss how to dispel the initial apprehensions for teaching online, strategies for planning online faculty development experiences, creating and managing online course development milestones, and the practice and procedure for implementing a continuous improvement plan.
By the end of this workshop, successful participants will be able to:
• Determine the scope of the instructional designer role at your institution
• Identify instructional design challenges
• Generate potential solutions to instructional design challenges
• Analyze the course development process at your institution
• Identify challenge areas in the course development process
• Develop a solution to a course development challenge
• Analyze the faculty development program at your institution
• Propose revisions to improve the effectiveness of your faculty development program
• Describe the relationship between program evaluation and continuous improvement
• Apply Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation model
• Analyze the effectiveness of a faculty development program evaluation plan
• Identify instructional design challenges
• Generate potential solutions to instructional design challenges
• Analyze the course development process at your institution
• Identify challenge areas in the course development process
• Develop a solution to a course development challenge
• Analyze the faculty development program at your institution
• Propose revisions to improve the effectiveness of your faculty development program
• Describe the relationship between program evaluation and continuous improvement
• Apply Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation model
• Analyze the effectiveness of a faculty development program evaluation plan