Online Project Management & Course Development

Melissa A. Venable, PhD [email_address] Noel C. Broman [email_address] Working in virtual teams to develop online courses presents multiple challenges. Managers, designers, developers, and faculty content experts must all be able to communicate and collaborate effectively. This presentation provides attendees with a list of resources and a checklist of considerations for selecting an online project management system. Supporting the Course Development Process: Online Tools for Team Collaboration and Communication Melissa A. Venable, PhD & Noel C. Broman | Kaplan Higher Education, School of Nursing
____ How many people need access to the system? To an individual project?
____ How many projects do you have running simultaneously?
____ What is your budget?
____ What features do you need?
__ Calendar
__ Milestones and benchmarks
__ Automated notifications
__ File storage
__ File version control
__ Check-in/Check-out function
__ Personal profiles
__ Internal communication
Email
Instant messaging
Chat
Synchronous conferencing
__Collaboration space
Whiteboards
Wiki space
Online workspace for geographically dispersed group
Not monitored outside project group
Version control of documents
Notification options
Templates – quick set-up for new projects
Learning curve for the interface
Training new users
Work around for check-in/check-out of collaborative documents
Team members working across different geographic locations to review and develop courses are faced with multiple challenges. The presenters work as part of one such team, designing and developing online courses in a higher education setting. This team typically includes a faculty content expert, web developer, program chairperson, and manager/designer. Collaboration and communication are critical to the success of the process itself, as well as the resulting course products. Online project management applications are available to help provide shared workspace, as well as overall structure to the process. The authors are instructional designers serving in the roles of manager/designer and designer/web developer. A larger, commercial system had been used for file sharing at the institutional (school/college) level, but these smaller, more focused design teams needed an online space with more communication features and the ability to clearly segregate materials into specific project areas. Online tools were reviewed in search of an effective way to facilitate communication and collaboration and support the course development process overall. While several team members were highly experienced with technology, interface and ease of use were also considered. BACKGROUND Cleveland, S. (2010, May 2). Top 3 project management blogs to engage, educate, and empower you [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.examiner.com/project-management-in-miami/top-3-project-management-blogs-to-engage-educate-and-empower-you Kumar, S. (2010, March 18). 15+ amazing project management and collaboration tools [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/best-project-management-collaboration-tools/ BENEFITS / CHALLENGES CHECKLIST DASHBOARD FOR MORE INFORMATION . . . ABSTRACT CONTACT FILES MILESTONES

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