These guidelines contain information on the minimum tools and characteristics that a course should have at USD. These guidelines have been crafted from extensive best practice research on blended-learning and are underpinned by Chickering and Gamson’s 7 Principles of Good Teaching as well as various other sources relating to teaching and learning with technology.
These USD online course guidelines are in two parts: The Minimum Characteristics for an on-line presence and Taking it Further were we go beyond the basic minimums.
The Minimum Characteristics is available in 2 formats; video and pdf. In addition, you can use the Template in CE and copy it into you course automatically meeting the minimum characteristics. You simply need to replace the files with your own and change the headers.