Adapting GW courses for accelerated online delivery
The Project: Adapt courses of various disciplines to an accelerated, online format, shifting most from 15-20 week on-campus formats to 6-8 week online formats.
The Learners: Graduate and undergraduate level students of GW.
My Role: Consult with professors on learning design best practices to adapt and improve their content; Design and develop content; LMS management.
Tools used: Blackboard Learn, Google Suite
Project in 5 words or less: Productive relationships make great learning!
Coaching professors on best practices was essential as many had not taught online before. After our sessions together, the professors I worked with shared that their online courses were now better than their on campus ones and that they were excited to update old content.
In 4 months I developed 8 courses with topics ranging from musical theory, political science, paleobiology, foreign languages, and national security.
The constant variety, ability to coach brilliant professors, and coming to work in a Library made this one of my favorite projects ever.