Delivery

Steps:

1. Identify who will teach or facilitate the course(s)
2. Identify start date(s) for the course(s)
3. Identify a program manager – if desired
4. Deliver/teach/facilitate the course(s)

Questions to Consider:

Teaching

• Determine frequency of the offering.
• Consider self-paced or rolling admissions.
• Identify current faculty and staff resources.
• If your program scales, how will you support instruction? Will you consider hiring LTL or adjunct instructors to teach?
• Indicate the number of people (by FTE) involved. (tenure/tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, visiting faculty, post doc, clinical/professional faculty, continuing/limited term lecturer, graduate student, undergraduate student, external to the university (EX: clinical site supervisor, student teaching supervisor, corporate partner), extension specialist, extension educator)
  • Indicate the capacity in which they serve. (instructor, advisor, mentor, director, course designer, grader, supervisor, other)
• Will you provide training/support for faculty and staff? Or, direct faculty and staff to central training/support resources?
  • New to online teaching
  • Interacting with students
  • Continuing education/skill enhancement
  • Technology
• How will you ensure and enable engaging teaching and instruction delivery? How will you assess effective teaching?
• How will you evaluate instructors?

Program Management

• Will you have a program manager?
  • What will the duties of the program manager be?

Who is Involved:

Faculty (Initiator)
3rd Party Vendor (Collaborator)
Purdue Online (Collaborator)

Process Map:

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