Principles for online course development

There are a number of referring email names that I always take time to follow up on. Claudine Schweber is one of them.

Claudine pointed readers on a Sloan-C listserv to an article about funding for new distance learning courses. Published by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington think tank, the report is called Educational Tools for the 21st Century. What I liked was the report's five principles for (online) course development:

1 - Develop courses to certification standards.

2 - Promote partnerships for the widest possible course adoptions.

3 - Use a common design architecture

4 - Develop both stand-alone and faculty-mediated courses.

5 - Provide for rigorous assessment of learning outcomes.

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