Course Development Process Paper

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Penn State Harrisburg Course Development Process
I should acknowledge that Penn State's course development process was one of the links listed under the Inspiration for the Course Development Process page. Although, the course development process differs across Penn State as an institution since there are independent offices of instructional design on each campus. I will give a summary of Penn State Harrisburg's course design process below, highlighted by the major points/milestones.

Proposal Phase (Pre-Development Process)
1. The faculty member seeking to develop a new course goes to Faculty Senate for approval. The course usually takes a long time to get through faculty senate. At this point the course will just be a rough outline of content …show more content…

The faculty member works with their school director to submit a Request for Proposal (RFP). This form will acknowledge that the school director and faculty have gone through the appropriate initial steps to begin working on the online course.
3. The faculty center director approves the RFP and communicates with the school director if any additional steps are needed.
Analysis and Design (3 months)
1. The faculty member, instructional designer, multimedia specialist, and instructional production specialist all get together for a kick-off meeting. Roles are and expectations for each team members workload are discussed. Also, milestones for the course development are set.
2. The instructional designer completes an analysis with the faculty member. The faculty member and designer can get scope of the project by discussing the number of equivalent instructional hours that will be needed to complete the course.
3. The instructional designer and faculty begin the design phase. The focus for the first 1-2 months is developing or refining course objectives, sub-objectives, assessments and learning activities.
4. A rough timeline for assessment delivery and content topics can be developed at this point.
5. A meeting is scheduled between the instructional designer, school director and faculty member to review course