Best Practices: Implementing an Online Course Development & Delivery Model - Veronica Outlaw and Margaret Rice, OJDLA

The rise of online and hybrid courses at the higher education level increases the need for distance learning infrastructures to nourish online faculty preparedness and student online learning success. One part of the distance learning infrastructure is incorporating the use of educated and trained instructional designers to assist faculty in developing robust and quality online courses. Developing online courses with an instructional designer is a very laborious process, but the results can outweigh the struggles that faculty encounter when doing it on their own. The authors explain what is involved in an established six-step course development model for developing, reviewing, and delivering a quality online course. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall183/outlaw_rice183.html