Do you want to design a new course, whether synchronous, asynchronous, hybrid or a flex environment? How about revamping a course you’ve already designed to improve functionality and accessibility? Have you been looking for some collaboration on best practices and tools to ensure that your course meets your goals and the University’s pedagogical standards?
As a participant in one of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Design course–development cycles, the CTLD will help with a wide variety of design processes, including alignment and content support, Open Educational Resource sourcing and implementation, instructional– media support, assessment design, accessibility remediation and more.
There are two design cycles each year, roughly a semester long each. During each cycle, instructors will work with a dedicated design team to identify course objectives, develop learning activities, create a user-friendly course, record high-quality multimedia content and more. After the cycle completes, instructors will have access to ongoing instructional– design support specialists who will provide help and advice for refining and delivering the course in the semesters ahead.
The course-development cycle is intensive but rewarding. Faculty members will leave the cycle with a course that is comprehensive and accessible and meets rigorous standards for excellence. Instructors will also receive a significant stipend as compensation for the time spent working on a course. All of this is in addition to the skills and knowledge that faculty members will develop and sharpen in instructional design, ultimately benefiting all of the students signed up for the course.
FAQs
How do I join a CTLD course–development cycle?
- The Office of Online Learning reviews institutional priorities for course development and schedules courses within our two course-development cycles. In addition to these identified courses, requests are welcome and can be submitted to the Office of Online Learning for consideration.
- For more information, please contact KC Coburn or Haley Murphy.
What are some of the services the CTLD offers?
- Alignment and content support — The ID team will help instructors establish course- and module-level learning objectives and course content that will support those objectives.
- OER sourcing and implementation — OERs are great resources for students, and the CTLD can help find, create and implement OERs successfully in a course.
- Instructional-media support — The CTLD instructional-media experts will help plan out media content for a course and record it in the CTLD multimedia studio.
- Assessment design — Assessing students’ mastery of the learning objectives is a critical feature of any course, and the CTLD will help design assessments that do so effectively.
- Accessibility review — The CTLD will thoroughly review your course and all instructional materials to ensure that they comply with accessibility requirements and follow best practices.
What responsibilities should I expect during a development cycle?
- Expertise and vision for a course are essential, and it should expected to spend about 100 hours over the course of the cycle developing content, establishing learning objectives, recording multimedia, creating assessment and more.
- As subject-matter experts, instructors will work closely with a dedicated instructional-design team, meeting with them weekly to discuss, review, plan and create the course.
- Included in the course-design project is the opportunity to record videos that introduce instructors and the course, prime students for module content, deliver lectures and more.
For more detail on our course-development cycle, please review the following pages:
Have questions?
Want help on this or other teaching and learning topics? Please visit the CTLD for drop-in support (10 a.m.- 3 p.m., M-F) or try one of the self-help tutorials.