How to promote consistency of processes and expectations among university course designers and external edtech providers, explained by Rae Mancilla and Nadine Hamman in the third part of a series looking at strategies for successful learning design partnerships. The University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences collaborated with the edtech firm Construct Education to assist its design team with new online course developments. After two previously unsuccessful design partnerships, university and edtech team leaders re-envisioned a new model for collaboration. This three-part series documents practical strategies deployed by the Pittsburgh-Construct team to lay foundations for a strong design partnership. In this third part, we focus on four strategies to establish administrative “norms” that help streamline cross-team course development.
