Title: THE WORLD CAMPUS
1Two FAQs How Much How Long?
Lawrence C. Ragan Director of IDD, Penn
State World Campus Bill Corrigan Director,
Distance Learning Design UW Educational Outreach
LCR1_at_PSU.EDU
Bcorrigan_at_ese.washington.edu
2Session Overview
- Review two support models for the design,
development and delivery of instructional
materials in an online teaching and learning
environment - Compare and contrast methods of project
budgeting, time tracking, and resource management - Compare and contrast project management timelines
and troubleshooting
3IDD Support Unit
4WC Food Chain
Instructional Design Development
Academic Programs
Student Services
5Penn States World Campus IDD
- A faculty support unit for the design
development of instructional materials delivered
in a variety of distance learning formats - Independent Learning (200 print-based/tech
enhanced) - World Campus (150 tech-based, print-supported)
6Penn States World Campus IDD
- Instructional design (7)
- Instructional technology (5)
- Editors (print designers) (5)
- Graphic artist (2)
- Publications/Production specialist (5)
- Multimedia producers (2)
- Researchers (2)
- Management (4)
7Development Support Relationship
- Service Unit
- Faculty member content and pedagogy
- IDD Unit
- Instructional design
- Project management
- Distance education methods/pedagogy
- Technical services
- other
8How much will this cost?
9Rationale for Budget Model
- Desire to quantify course development resources
- Desire to better account for dollars w/Academic
unit - Needed to control costs (place parameters on
faculty) - Desire for University buy-in/support
- Desire for benchmarking data
10Changing University Dynamics
- Some academic units w/IDD resources
- WC needed to be able to serve more course dev.
projects - Hold WC as cost accountable
11Starting Point
- Categorized IDD process (10 major steps)
- Identify tasks/function
- Assigned time per task
- Developed rates based on time tracked
data/function and number of staff assignable
12Centralized vs Assignable Costs
- Centralized must be accounted for in budgeting
and cannot be accomplished by outsource unit - Assignable can be performed by outsource unit
13IDD Centralized Services
- Five Steps
- Course project management
- Integrating course content into LMS
- Course set-up in LMS
- Administration to get course open
- Course revisions (2nd time offerings, repeat
offerings, major revisions)
14IDD Assignable Functions
- Five Steps
- Instructional design
- Instructional materials development
- Course materials production
- Instructional materials management and
administration - Course revisions
15Course Type Breakdown
- Not all courses are created equally
- Basic- primarily text
- Enhanced- a single media model
- Multimedia- multiple delivery media
16Staff time per project (hrs)
- Instructional Designer
- Instructional technologist
- Editor
- Graphic Artist
- Print Producer
- Production Specialist
150 50 80 39 20 20
17Course Costs (IDD Produced)
- Basic Model 30,705
- Enhanced Model 35,767
- Multiple Media 42, 913
- Excludes faculty payment, marketing, student
services and tech support
18Revision Management
- Developed budget model with reduction of time for
second and then subsequent offerings - Second offering as much as 1/2 original
- Subsequent offerings 1/3 original
- highly dependent upon course
19How long will this take?
20Factors Affecting Development Time
- How many faculty involved (multiple facultygt
more time) - DE experience of faculty
- Complexity of content
- Amount of external software/resources
- Faculty work load management
21Development Cycle (theory)
Content Generation Pedagogical Model
Course Development Implementation
Course Delivery
September
January-May
June-August
22Development Cycle (reality)
Content Generation Pedagogical Model
Course Development Implementation
Course Delivery
September
January-May
June-August
23Development Time (Reality)
- Typically plan on a 1 year cycle
- Consider back-up plans
- Practice good project management (communications)
- Be flexible
24Greatest Challenges
- Content on time
- Faculty commitment
- Revision management
25Slides available from www.personal.psu.edu/lcr1