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Designing Online Courses
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Hunter College faculty can use these resources and services to help them build the best online courses for their students’ needs.
Get Started
- Request a consultation with the educational technologists by emailing edtech@hunter.cuny.edu. We can tell you about the resources and services available at Hunter and show you sample online courses.
- Attend a Module-Making Camp to build one complete online module including learning outcomes, instructions for students, learning materials, activities and assessments.
- Review video tours of exemplary Blackboard courses.
- Ask our Blackboard admin team to create a developmental course shell based on the "online course template" (email bb@hunter.cuny.edu).
Online Course Template - Weekly Coursework
Online Course Template - Syllabus
Build Courses
- Go through the self-paced Course Design & Development Tutorial created by the School of Professional Studies - CUNY.
- Review the Teaching Online Pedagogical Practices Repository created by the University of Central Florida.
- See examples of instructor-created materials.
- Attend online workshops to learn about tools and best practices for communicating with students and for creating multimedia materials.
- Learn how to create accessible course materials (e.g. documents readable by screen-readers and videos with captions).
- Get ideas for selecting tools and designing multimedia assignments from the Tool Talk and Teaching Tips posts on the ACERT blog.
- Participate in ACERT lunchtime seminars to hear about insights and experiences from Hunter colleagues.
- Meet with the educational technologists on a weekly or monthly basis as you build your course.
Finalize Course Design
- Conduct a self-review of your course using a course evaluation rubric (e.g. CUNY SPS Peer Observation Form).
- Schedule an appointment with an educational technologist (email edtech@hunter.cuny.edu) to discuss your self-review and address issues.
- Read through the start-of-the-semester Reminders for Professors Teaching Online Courses.