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Questions and Consideration

Following are initial issues to consider as you begin to define, research and plan the best technologies and methodologies for development and delivery of online instructions.

  • Technology changes and issues
    • Irregular
    • Constant
    • Ripple through engineering, programming and design
    • Non-systematic
    • Non-predictable
    • Non-durable
    • Need to minimize effects of technology on users
    • Test, test, test
    • Document, document, document…
  • Operations changes and issues
    • Administration – system and operations
    • Administrator – registration and records
    • Students
    • Teachers and mentors
    • Support, help desk and advising
  • Costs and containment
    • Sources
    • Instructional design
    • Editorial control
    • Feature creep
    • Media elements
    • Testing
    • Selling
    • Maintenance
    • Updating
    • Servicing
    • Delivering and management
    • Teaching
    • Recordkeeping
  • Reusability of content
    • Objects replaces and reused
    • Permissions, updating and renewing
    • Standards – State and districts
  • Quality Assurance factors
    • Content
      • Factual
      • Typographical
      • Links – broken, missing or outdated
      • Accuracy and timeliness of information
    • Delivery
      • Proxies
      • Firewalls
      • Client Software
      • Client hardware
      • Product delivered
      • Local Resource Disk or Resource Utility
    • Technical
      • Files
        • Audio
        • Video
        • graphical
      • Plug-ins
      • Browsers
      • Operating systems
      • Navigation functions
      • Buttons and rollovers
    • Management System
      • Grade book
      • Exams and assessments
      • Answers and response
      • Email
      • Notebooks
      • Enrollments
      • Log-ins ID’s and password
  • Development platform process
    • Plug-ins (i.e., FLASH™)
    • HTML editor (i.e., DreamWeaver™)
    • Recording and Players (i.e., Purevoice™)
    • Interaction tools (i.e., Sketchpad™)
    • Word editor
    • Content source (author, print-base, other online content)
  • Development design process
    • Audience level (K5, 6-8, 9-12, higher education, adult, at risk)
    • Customer and client (corporate (i.e., class.com), school district (i.e., LPS), distance learners (i.e., ISHS))
    • Literacy (subject area, computer expertise and reading level)
    • Pedagogy
    • Standards
    • Interactions
    • Feed back
    • Assessments
    • Learning Styles
    • Education needs (diploma, information only, credits)
  • Unique opportunities (pacing, scheduling, relationships – teacher/student)
    • Geographically isolated inside the US
    • Geographically isolated outside the US
    • Time free
    • Place free
    • Dropped out of school
    • Make up deficiencies
    • Self paced
    • Scheduling conflicts
    • Subject availability
    • Home-bound
    • Accelerate schooling
    • Skill improvement
    • Home schooled
  • Real value of CLASS™
    • Change process
      • Instructional design
      • Web-based instruction
      • Courseware development
      • Copyright and permissions
      • Quality assurance
      • Standards based
    • Research to Market
      • Partnering
      • Proliferating
      • Disintegrating
    • Role of technology
      • Local
      • State
      • National
      • Assessments and evaluation
    • Strategies through technology
      • Local
      • State
      • National
      • Assessments and evaluation

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