SUNY Online has developed a set of course templates for 8 distinct use cases and instructional modalities that have been optimized specifically for the SUNY DLE Brightspace environment. Course templates are an important tool for faculty, instructional designers, and learners in digital learning environments. Embedding research-based effective practices and quality standards into course templates have been shown to positively influence:
A good online course starts with well-articulated learning objectives. Content and activities are then designed to target those objectives specifically, and optimized to leverage the online environment to foster deep engagement, interaction, collaboration and ways that online learners can make their thinking and learning visible to the instructor and peers. And finally, methods of providing feedback, assessments and/or evaluations are developed that are authentic methods given the online nature of the learning environment.