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== =EDTEC 798 - Special Study / Fall 09=

Case Study of Best Practices in Moving Campus Courses Online: Online Course Design and Evaluation
This workspace acts as a documentation platform to record the processes of this study during the Fall 09 semester.

Background | Project description | Project Outcomes | Project Deliverables

Background
Elaborate on the background of this study.

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Project description
In Summer 09, media type="custom" key="4320965" offered over 20 fully online undergraduate courses. With the support from both media type="custom" key="4320945" and media type="custom" key="4320947", this initiative of moving large classes online was a milestone for media type="custom" key="4320955". In order to help faculty to teach effectively online while aligning to current best practices, it is important to gather feedback from students about their course design and online teaching. To this end, an online course formative evaluation toolkit called media type="custom" key="4320957" was developed to provide faculty with a collection of relevant and useful assessment tools to help them evaluate their online courses. Feedback was gathered from selected faculty in the Summer semester via an media type="custom" key="4320959" which solicited for their comments on their online experiences and use of formative evaluation tools. Building on these findings, a second round of data collection will be conducted in the Fall semester. The aim of this study is thus to analyze and interpret feedback gathered from these two sessions so as to recommend effective practices in online course design and evaluation.

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Project Outcomes
The goals of the study are as follow:
 * Gain insights into instructor experiences with online course development, implementation, and evaluation.
 * Use findings from the study to guide more instructors in media type="custom" key="4320967" and across the media type="custom" key="4320955" campuses to successfully teach online.
 * Results from this study should also contribute to enhanced learning experiences and better learning outcomes for online students.

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Project Deliverables
The key deliverables of the study are as follow:
 * 1) Literature review.
 * 2) Design and develop study instruments.
 * 3) Complete data collection.
 * 4) Conduct comparative analysis of data collected between the Summer & Fall online classes.
 * 5) Prepare a preliminary report based on the analysis.

See Schedule for the time frame of the study.

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