A MODEL FOR DEVELOPING HIGH-QUALITY ONLINE COURSES: INTEGRATING A SYSTEMS APPROACH WITH LEARNING THEORY

Authors

  • Maria Puzziferro
  • Kaye Shelton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v12i3-4.1688

Keywords:

Online Course Development, Instructional Design, Online Faculty Development

Abstract

As the demand for online education continues to increase, institutions are faced with developing process models for efficient, high-quality online course development. This paper describes a systems, team-based, approach that centers on an online instructional design theory (Active Mastery Learning) implemented at Colorado State University-Global Campus. CSU-Global Campus is a newly-created online campus within the Colorado State University System, and launches in Fall 2008 with fully-online undergraduate degree completion programs and Master’s degrees.

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Published

2019-02-09

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3-4 (2008)

Section

Empirical Studies

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