1. An Introduction to COELAS and Course Development
Presented by Debbie Clemens and Kim Barss, Instructional Designers

2. Agenda Introduction to COELAS Current Course Development Process
Course Development Team and Roles
Integrated/Backward Design
QM (HANDOUT)
Multimedia Repository

3. COELAS Center for Online Education, Learning, and Academic Services
Online Education Team: Supports and works with the academic units in the allocation of time and resources to design, develop, implement, evaluate, and revise courses.
Learning and Academic Services Team: Works with the academic units to support student learning that includes the Library, Career Services, and contracted third party vendors such as Smarthinking and Grammarly.

4. The Learning and Academic Services Team
Darren Walsh
Assistant VP
Academic Services
Career Services
Bookstore
Maribeth Gunner
Director, Career Services
Michelle Abeyta
Learning Services Coordinator
Crystal Sands
Director, OWL
Anita Norton
Director, Library

5. The Online Education Team
Jennifer McVay-Dyche, Assistant VP
Instructional Design Team: Kim Barss, Erin Blauvelt, Debbie Clemens
IDs: Peter O’Brien, Patryce Smith (MID), Susan Woerner
Course Development Specialist Team
John Prusch, Director, Online Learning
Patrick Bacher, Senior Projects Manager
Leigh Tedesco, Manager, Course Development

6. How does COELAS support courses?
Each academic unit receives an entire landing field with an allotted number of landing strips
New Course Development- 6 landing strips for design & development
Major Course Revision- 6 landing strips for design & development
Minor Course Revision- 2 landing strips
Programming
Video creation/editing
Multimedia design and development

7. Current Course Development Process
6 landing-strip process for new development or major revisions
4 strips allocated to content development
2 strips for programming
Can be completed in 6 or less months

8. Course Design and Development & Major Revision Process
Design and Development Phase (6 months)
Pre-development materials
Kickoff Meeting
Pre-development Phase
Outcomes, assessment & learning activities (4 months)
Templates
Design
Modules 1-8 programmed (2 months)
Final edits-review
Development - Programming
Cloning
Implementation
Evaluation
Post-development

9. Course Development and Major Revision Process (6 month time frame)
Pre-development Phase (analysis and planning)
Unit review of pre-development materials
Kickoff (1-4 weeks BEFORE Design and Development phase begins)
Design and development Phase
1. Design (4 months)
Outcomes, assessment and learning activities
Templates
2. Development-Programming (2 months)
Modules 1-8 programmed
Final edits-review
Post-development Phase
Cloning
Implementation
Evaluation

10. Course Coordinators
Library
LMS Admins
CEM

11. Course Development Team Member Roles
Faculty Program Director
Subject Matter Expert
“The Faculty Program Director provides academic leadership for the development and management of school curricula and courses, and development of faculty and staff, facilitation of student learning and student support.”
“A subject-matter expert (SME) provides knowledge and/or experience in a particular area or topic, as part of a development team. In collaboration with the FPD, the SME may:
Author the syllabus including: course outcomes, course description, and course materials (i.e. textbooks, articles, open educational resources, etc.).”

12. Course Development Team Member Roles
Instructional Designer
Course Development Specialist
“The Instructional Designer collaborates with the SME and FPD to assist with the development of learning outcomes, instructional strategies, and assessments from kick-off through post-premiere review. The Instructional Designer provides support and advice throughout the course development.”
Program approved course content placed within the blackboard shell
Develop multimedia as requested
Term-to-term cleanup and dates

13. Integrated/Backward Design
Definition
Simple Analogy- Travel
Begin with the end in mind
Create outcomes
Design Assessment Activities
Design Learning Activities
L. Dee Fink- Guide to Integrated Course Design (Course Development Resources Folder)
Indicate where you are going to go
Determine how you will know you got there
Decide how you are going to get there

14. Quality Matters
College-wide quality assurance and collegial review process: internal and external course review process
Assures the quality of our courses informed by a guiding rubric of Design Standards that reflect current research findings and national standards of best practice in online learning
Alignment among our course and module outcomes, the assessment and learning activities and materials
Module template updated for standard 2.4: To explicitly demonstrate that the relationship between module learning outcomes or competencies and course activities is clearly stated.
Accessibility and usability for all learners

15. Changes to the Syllabus & Module Templates
Syllabus Template Changes
Module Template Changes
QM General Standard 8 (Accessibility and Usability)
Accessibility software links
Will be listed beneath the textbooks and other materials for the course
Small language changes throughout
QM General Standard 2 (Learning Objectives (Competencies))
Create better outward alignment between outcomes and assessments and activities
CO or MO listing on Overview and Outcomes pages in Bb

16. Changes to the Syllabus Template

17. Changes to the Module Development Template

18. 004 Changes
Links in the Learning Resources section of the purple tool bar have been renamed and re-ordered.
The Support & Help page has been renamed "Support and Services." Additionally, the page was updated with descriptions of the services provided so students know what each type of service is for.
The Start Here - Course Information page has been updated with new screen shots and clearer instructions. Users may also print the page using the "Printer Friendly version" link at the top of the page.

19. Multimedia Repository
Located in Bb
Policies and procedures for multimedia development and design
4 simple OR
2 simple and 1 complex
Examples in the repository

20. Questions