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//Engaging students from a distance is one of the biggest challenges in online education. Creating high quality course content is essential to establishing student engagement. This requires forethought and planning. This session will outline the process that Virtual Virginia has developed for creating and reviewing course content to assure high quality, engaging course material through a collaborative approach.//

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Content ‘Development’ – Forethought not Afterthought Mitzi Fehl-Seward (Virtual Virginia)


 * See Online Handouts and List of Resources***

• Strong Checklist for evaluating the readiness of an Online Course. • Discussed Costs, Hours, Roles • V.V. teachers all teach full-time – are not eligible to write courses – too close / too busy. • Annual review, dead-links, best practices / Standards and Textbook Review • Discussion of AP Labs • “PASTE” model, similar to LEARN model • www.virtualvirginia.org/conferences/vss09 o Templates for course review • Username: VSS.09 • Password: virtualva • ALL WRITERS SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH SREB and NACOL Documents/standards for evaluating online courses. • Brick house of construction = develop template / HTML / Feedback/Create Master/Update/Review • Separation of duties, writers need to be able to work in-depth (not distracted), expert and peer review

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