This course is designed to allow participants the opportunity to explore and discuss tailoring resources for online faculty, including tools, strategies and curating techniques. Techniques for helping online faculty integrate resources into their online courses, such as multimedia, open education resources, and social networking tools are also explored.

This 4-week course is part of the Instructional Designer Certificate Program, but may also be taken as an individual professional development offering.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore social bookmarking for collecting, curating, and sharing resources
• Develop strategies for making resources accessible to faculty
• Create a resource list for use by faculty and instructional designers
• Analyze strategies and methods used to evaluate online resources, OER, and online teaching and learning tools
• Create an evaluation checklist for evaluating new online tools
• Create an evaluation checklist for evaluating online resources and OER
• Apply strategies for effectively organizing online resources
• Develop strategies for making useful resources more easily accessible to faculty
• Evaluate methods for effective resource sharing
• Create a faculty support resource

Week 1: Collecting Resources
Week 2: Evaluating Resources
Week 3: Organizing and Developing Resources
Week 4: Developing and Sharing Resources

Who Should Take this Program?

• Instructional designers who work directly with faculty in the course design and development process
• Librarians and multimedia specialists who also take on the role of an instructional designer
• Online faculty who also support online course design and development at their institution

Prerequisites

At least one year of experience in supporting online course design and development in an instructional design capacity.