Designing Courses
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This morning, I had the chance to ask regional tech directors in the San Antonio area the following:
Could we design a framework that we could all agree to follow when designing an online course, especially one that will end up in Moodle, a free open source course management system? My concern is that each of us will design a course—such as for cyberbullying, digital citizenship, differentiated instruction—that is usable in our district but not in others. It would be a terrible waste of time to create something for use ONLY in one place when we can so easily collaborate.
I would like for us to come up with a list of expectations that would serve as our model, or as someone else said, a “template,” that we could each use when designing our own courses in our own district.
Thanks to Jennifer Faulkner, TCEA Area 20 Board Member who was present at our meeting, TCEA will be hosting the meeting and supporting those who gather in December to discuss what such a course design framework should look like. I, for one, will look forward to sharing it here for your constructive feedback.
In pursuing this goal, I hope that we’ll be creating a structure that is usable for us…the question is, has someone already created such a structure and could you share that with us?
