{"id":757,"date":"2013-01-03T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slneducation.edublogs.org\/?p=757"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:12:45","slug":"what-would-you-do-if-you-were-starting-an-online-program-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/2013\/01\/03\/what-would-you-do-if-you-were-starting-an-online-program-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"what would you do if you were starting an online program from scratch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>huge question &#8230; Some small suggestions:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make it part of the strategic mission and vision of the institution.<\/li>\n<li>Think strategically about what you are doing and why.<\/li>\n<li>Start small.<\/li>\n<li>Target online programs, rather than courses.<\/li>\n<li>Think about this as an institutional initiative to further specific institutional goals and the mission\/vision.<\/li>\n<li>Library, bursar, advisors, etc. &#8230; \u2013 all student services and support have to be involved in the cultural change.<\/li>\n<li>Support. support. support.<\/li>\n<li>Think about faculty and students as customers and make sure they are always happy.<\/li>\n<li>Collect data and use it to prove things, to improve things, to document impact, scale, growth, and success, and to justify things, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Build on success and word of mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Build it one instructor at a time. Build\/cultivate trust among the faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Use your faculty to spread the word.<\/li>\n<li>Use faculty (and their course designs) as examples.<\/li>\n<li>Use them to mentor or train for you.<\/li>\n<li>Create a community of practice for faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Base your approaches, program, process, recommendations on research.<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to the research, or get your faculty to.<\/li>\n<li>Turn theory into practice.<\/li>\n<li>Quick start faculty with flexible effectively design course templates that incorporate research-based effective practices.<\/li>\n<li>Use course design rubrics, standards formatively and summatively for course reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Support innovation and experimentation.<\/li>\n<li>Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement at the program, faculty and course levels.<\/li>\n<li>Institute revision and improvement cycles and processes and implement them assiduously.<\/li>\n<li>How will you measure success and impact?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>huge question &#8230; Some small suggestions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[134,203],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program","tag-program-development","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}