Online Course Templates Let Faculty Focus on Content

Madison, Wis. October 1, 2008

Bring efficiency and consistency to the development of your online classes with a campus-wide, best-practices-driven template that can be applied to every course.

A campus-wide course template can free your faculty to focus on course content, help your institution achieve uniform quality in course offerings and help your students spend more time learning, said Renee Cicchino, senior instructional designer, during her recent online seminar.

Benefits of using a template that she highlighted include:

·         A sample course structure for faculty who may not have taught or developed an online course before

·         Decreased course development time

·         A consistent learning environment for students

·         A sense of community for the distance learner.

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Atlanta Metropolitan College has adopted an institutional template that will be used for all courses that are taught online. This template meets best practices in distance learning and allows faculty to focus on instruction instead of course design.

Two of the leading organizations that promote research and best practice for online courses are Quality Matters (www.qmprogram.org/) and The Sloan Consortium (www.sloan-c.org)

The AMC template includes the following on the homepage of each course taught online:

 

AMC Template for all online classes

 

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