Pedagogical Goals

These goals are quality indicators that should afford a continual process of faculty development for those involved with online courses. The rapid changes taking place in online education can be expected to continue and accelerate. The technical skills that distance education faculty will need to acquire will change quickly as well.

Goals and Objectives

• Distinguish between process and outcome goals and objectives.
• Prepare clearly written and measurable objectives.

Analyze learner characteristics

• Determine the demographics of the target population.
• Identify the background needs, resources, and goals of the learner.
• Estimate the learner's control over the time, pace, and place of learning.
• Assess potential aptitude, support, or process variables that may affect content and method of delivery.

Entry Skills

• Prepare a course map that illustrates principle and subordinate goals.

Assessment

• Determine methods of measuring learning outcomes on-line.
• Appraise security issues affecting web-based courses.
• Conduct online assessments (testing).
• Conduct alternative and portfolio assessment.

Instructional, Learning, and Motivational Strategies

• Summarize the methods, pros and cons of various web-based delivery approaches.
• Select effective instructional and learning strategies.
• Incorporate motivational strategies.
• Select appropriate media combination to achieve learning outcomes.
• Prepare an instructional agenda.
• Prepare a lesson plan.

Evaluation

• Design and conduct formative evaluation of courseware.
• Revise courseware based on data collected in formative evaluation.

Fair Use and Intellectual Property

• Summarize the University's policy on intellectual property and copyright issues related to original courseware development.
• Summarize the University's policy on fair use of copyright materials.

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