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Know Your Program:
Making decisions about your online program
prior to course development
Christine Bauer, eCampus Center Assistant Director
Randy Magen, Director School of Social Work
Jennifer Obenshain, MSW Online Program Coordinator
Joelle Powers, MSW Program Coordinator
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Fast Facts About:
Boise State University,
Boise State eCampus,
the eCampus Center
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eCampus: Two Distinct
Student Audiences
Campus-based students
• Both traditional and
commuter students in
programs offered
primarily on campus
• Online courses provide
scheduling flexibility,
online experience
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Fully online students
• Students tend to be
older, with commitments
such as families and/or
jobs
• Online programs provide
remote access to degrees
and certificates
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Boise State eCampus Snapshot
2014-2015: (Su14, Fa14, Sp15)
 Faculty teaching online: 350 in 38 departments
 Online courses: 367 in 1,550 sections
 Students who took 1 or more online: 39% or 11,369
 Registrations/enrollments in online: 14.36%
 Credit hours produced online: 15.53%
 eCampus Academic degrees/certificates: 22
 Undergraduate degree completion programs: 3
 Graduate degrees: 10
Graduate certificates: 9
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Online Programs:
Collaborative Processes
Marketing, Recruitment,
Enrollment’ & Retention
eCampus Center
Academic Departments
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And Many Others
All Student Services Offices
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Online Academic Program Development Process
• Online Program Development
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Program Concept
Feasibility Studies & Analysis
Preliminary Budget
Acquire Approvals
• Marketing & Recruitment
– Communication & Marketing Plan
– Recruitment & Retention Plan
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• Online Program Design Process
– A series of meetings with key
faculty and eCampus Center
Assistant Director to prepare for
online course development
• Online Course Development /
Production
– Online courses developed by a
multi-expert team a semester or
two before being offered online
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• Bachelor’s
program since
1966, MSW
started in 1991
• Next year
anticipate 227
face –to-face
MSW Students,
100 Online MSW
Students, 75 BSW
students
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School of Social Work
Location
BSW
MSW
Regular Program
Boise
Fulltime
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Parttime
Advance Standing
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Coeur
d’Alene
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Lewiston
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Twin Falls
Online
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Overview of
Online Program Design Process
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Online Program Design Process: Step 7
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Online Program Specifications
Online Course Template
Online Syllabus Template
Online Program Orientation
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• “All bathtubs use to be white, telephones black and checks
green” (Johnson)
• All students use to sit in desks in a classroom, faculty stood in
front lecturing, and courses met for the semester (or quarter)
– We are freed from that model
– Now we have to make some decisions that we never had to make
before
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Decisions about
Program Operations
-Design and inputs
Curriculum
-Production and outputs
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Making Decisions
• No right and wrong
• Influences
– Clarity
– Consistency
• One program, different delivery methods
– EPAS 2015
• Blueprints
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Key Decisional Areas
• Non-curricular
– Course format
– Residency requirement/synchronous sessions
– Orientation
– Faculty expectations
– Quality assurance
• Curricular decisions
– Course template
– Syllabus template
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No Decisions
• Learning activities or strategies within courses
• Assignments and assessment within courses
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Practical Lessons Learned
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Lots of Time Prior to Course Development
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Meetings with Faculty to decide
Involving Deans and the Provost
Planning scope with eCampus center
10-step process
Developing a budget model
State Board approval
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Collaborate with Multiple Entities on Campus
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eCampus center
Registrar
Graduate Council
Graduate College
Library
OIT
Disability Resource Center
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Things We Would Do Differently
• Identify a point person(s) and make this part of workload as soon as
decision is made
• Hire the Online MSW Coordinator earlier in the process
• Delay the start date
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Until more of the courses were finished with production
New EPAS standards announced
Until all course objectives were finalized
New Director in place
• Would not conduct much of the 10-step process over the summer
• Facilitate an interdepartmental meeting early on in the decision-making
phase
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Things We Would Do the Same
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Make course online development/teaching optional to our faculty
Start small (25 admitted to first cohort
“Always a work in progress”
Course design model: develop, teach, revise
Onboarding meetings
Partnership with instructional design teams
Faculty incentives
Operations and 10-Step meetings
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Questions?
Thank you for attending!
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