Contestants engage with game hosts to find the top answers on a variety of questions, best practices, and ideas surrounding the faculty/ID collaboration during course development. Leave with a smile on your face, ideas for continued improvement, and a prize if you’re lucky!
Developing an exemplary online course is a time intensive and sometimes daunting task, especially if you go at it alone. Having the support of an Instructional Designer behind you can alleviate some of the stress involved in the “do it alone” format. In this session, attendees will engage with game show hosts (a paired instructional designer and faculty developer) to find the top answers to a variety of questions relating to instructional design, collaborative course development, and the relationships built based upon experience and research.
During a 25-week development process at our university, we come across a variety of places where collaboration, best practices, and process come into play. The experiences, successes, and room for improvement that we’ve come across are yours for the taking in the form of helpful tips and tricks after each game round. Learning from our wins and “educational opportunities” can help to smooth over rough patches as you continue the development of your processes.
We’ll cover categories about communication, media elements, timelines, professional development and research, best practices, accessibility, diversity, inclusion, and others. Don’t know anything about this yet? No worries! We’re sure you’ll be able to guess at least one of the answers in every category. *Hint: The answer is “collaboration.”
After the top answers are revealed, we’ll provide a quick review of those answers, where it fits into our 25 week development timeline, and based upon our experience and research, provide helpful takeaways for each category before moving on.
Take notes only if you want; materials will be provided via the conference website!