15005

15005

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (20 minutes, no formal paper)

Lisa Johnson, Ashford University, Destin, FL 32541, USA, lisa.johnson@ashford.edu
 * Creating a Culture for Collaborative Course Design **

How do your faculty collaborate during a course design? Do you have expert instructional designers who are also faculty and serve in both capacities during course designs? At Ashford University we discovered how to leverage existing faculty expertise with online course design as part of a revised process in the College of Education. This session explores the process of piloting a course design process at Ashford University. The revised process for online course design created a collaborative course design experience and is producing more aligned, engaging, empowering, and effective courses and programs. This session focuses on the process and related culture changes, personnel and process calibrations, and examples of our successes and challenges thus far with the pilot of the new process. Access to documentation is available to participants in this session upon request.

//Interactivity // I will ask the audience to describe their course design protocols as collaborative or cooperative and then relate examples of how AU's College of Education has revamped our infrastructure to create collaboration rather than mere cooperation among various teams in the design and development phase. This session is also being presented at the AECT 2014 November conference in a similar format and WCET 2014 in November as well. I think it will appeal to the audience of TCC membership based on my prior experience presenting at this conference. I will pause every two minutes or so for questions.

Intermediate Instructional Design, Online, Collaboration