Designing Your Blackboard Course

Organizing Course Content

When organizing course content a good model to follow to help you is the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate).  Use this model to help with planning and implementing your online course.

Analyze

  • Analyze audience- Consider ages, location of students, internet connectivity, experience, interests, educational levels
  • Determine need- What past experiences does the department or students have to develop a course.
  • Identify existing knowledge and skills and find the gaps that need to be addressed. (What needs to be learned)
  • Determine constraints such as internet connectivity, time zones, computer resources
  • Identify online pedagogical considerations and learning types such as visual, auditory and verbal

Design

  • Identify learning objectives- Determine instructional intent that will lead the students to their educational goals.
  • Establish Goals-
  • Determine assessment instruments, exercises and content
  • Identify timelines for the course

Develop

  • Create content outline
  • Review existing materials
  • Select, develop, organize course content

Implement

  • Teach course content

Evaluate

  • Determine if instructional goals were met
  • Evaluate effectiveness of course
  • Have students fill out survey to determine strengths and weakness
  • Collect and analyze date to consider ways to improve course