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Two Heads Are Better Than One: Collaborative Development of an Online Course Content Template
The authors collaborated to address an institutional need for a high-quality, high-enrollment online introductory psychology course. The course needed to be teachable by different types of potential instructors, including permanent, full-time faculty and temporary, part-time faculty, with a minimum of preparation time needed to set up the course. Although a successful web course had been developed in the past, it was tied to one specific instructor; this fact, plus the low capacity designed into the course, made it cost-prohibitive to offer on a regular basis. Prior efforts to create a course content template teachable by temporary faculty had run into faculty resistance around ownership of the course and quality concerns. This collaboration emphasized the strengths of each contributor, resulting in a final product equal or superior in effectiveness to the face-to-face version of the course.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 16, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- November 15, 2014
- Authors:
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Michelle D. Miller,
Northern Arizona University
Michael E. Rader, Northern Arizona University - Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
- Mobile Compatibility:
- Not specified at this time
- Technical Requirements:
- Adobe reader or web browser
- Language:
- English
- Cost Involved:
- No
- Source Code Available:
- No
- Creative Commons:
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
