This document outlines the EDUC 293 - Online Curriculum Design & Instruction course at UNM-Valencia Campus. It thanks the Title V grant for supporting the project and lists references used. It describes creating an online student orientation, a for-credit EDUC 293 faculty training course, and a faculty mentoring program. An action plan details collecting baseline online student data, sending orientation letters, creating the online student orientation module, piloting the EDUC 293 course in fall 2016 and full implementation in spring 2017, and determining how to train dual credit teachers. Progress includes refining online instruction policies and proposing a policy for dual credit teachers to take EDUC 293.

1. EDUC 293 - Online Curriculum Design & Instruction:
Screenshots of EDUC 293 as
taught through the Blackboard
Learn Learning Management
System to faculty for online
certification at UNM - Valencia
Campus:
Student Online Orientation Letter:Online Orientation Module:
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the “Next Generation Project” Title V grant for making
this project possible.
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References
Improving Online EducationElaine Clark, Heather Wood,
Soledad Garcia-King,
Alexa Wheeler
Project Description
• To create a systemic process for design review of online & hybrid courses. To
provide professional development for faculty.
• New initiatives: student preparedness for the online environment, training and
evaluation in our Dual Credit programs, and more online course offerings and
programs for fully online associate degrees.
Project Goals
• Create an online orientation for all students taking online and hybrid classes.
• Create a for-credit course that will train faculty for teaching in the online envi-
ronment.
• Begin a mentoring program for faculty who wish to teach online.
Action Plan
• Collect base-line data for retention and completion of students enrolled in
online, hybrid, blended, and dual credit courses
• Create form letter to go via “snail mail” to all students enrolled in online,
hybrid, blended, and dual credit courses
• Create the “UNM-Valenica Online Orientation Module”
• Create EDUC 293 course: pilot - Fall 2016, full implementation - Spring 2017
• Determine best way to train dual credit high school teachers
• Track completion of faculty who enroll in EDUC 293 courses during Fall 2016
Progress
• Refine policies and procedures for online instruction that we started working on
at the NMHEAA retreat in 2015
• Propose to implement policy that dual credit high school teachers take the
EDUC 293 course