Designing Online Courses

Follow these steps:

• Get Started
• Build Courses
• Get Inspired
• Finalize Course Design

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.

Get Inspired

ACERT Event Capsule – Irene Morrison-Moncure and Jared Simard discuss taking their courses online.