Course Development
World-class custom online courses that deliver a truly unparalleled learning experience for your students and instructors alike.
Our goal is to work collaboratively with your program leadership to create engaging and effective online learning experiences. Initially, we will work with you to ensure that your organization’s distinctive pedagogy is defined, and we will determine how best to translate this instructional philosophy to the online medium. We strive to incorporate unique elements of your instructional philosophy into a customized online format, whether they focus on ensuring that learners have an opportunity to be agents of change, perform action research, utilize experiential learning, or participate in a community of inquiry. Additionally, we collaborate with faculty to translate their priorities, such as stressing the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum, focusing on reflection opportunities and outreach.
Consistent with our collaborative approach, Focus EduVation adheres to a flexible course design pedagogy of Instruct || Engage || Apply. The pedagogical approach based on constructivism promotes a student-centric and outcomes-driven learning experience and requires an analysis of structure, content, learner engagement, as well as technology. It allows your organization and our instructional designers to ensure that we’re attending to instructional presence, cognitive presence, and the significant social presence in courses.
Course Development Pedagogical Approach
Instruct
Facilitate learning and comprehension of new concepts, processes, and skills.
Engage
How intrinsically motivated and invested students are in the learning process and how much they regulate and take ownership of it.
Apply
Create opportunities for learners to demonstrate their understanding of concepts and knowledge to generate new ideas
Course Production and Implementation
We believe close collaboration between subject matter experts, faculty, and instructional designers is the key to designing effective and engaging online learning experiences. Initially, we will work with you to ensure that the College distinctive pedagogy is defined, and we will determine how best to translate this instructional philosophy to the online medium. We strive to incorporate unique elements of your instructional philosophy into a customized online format, whether they focus on ensuring that your students have an opportunity to be agents of change, perform action research, utilize experiential learning, or participate in a community of inquiry.
During the program planning, design, production, and implementation process, Focus EduSolutions team members will work closely with your faculty. Our Academic Services team is dedicated to meeting ALL partner needs on an ongoing basis. We provided end-to-end, semester to semester support for all facets of online learning.
This chart highlights the components of our full-service production capability.
| Program Planning | |
| Plan Development | Component areas of the program planning stage:
· Institutional Pedagogy · Curriculum Mapping · Assessment Plan · Teaching Standards · Technology Approach · Course Design Convention · Student Feedback Strategy · Student Orientation Program · Faculty Training & Development |
| Course Development | |
| Base | Design and development of a course designed to meet learning outcomes represent the program’s distinctiveness and fully engage learners. Course content is comprised of learning activities, formative and summative assessments, peer collaboration elements, and faculty presence elements. |
| Additional Development | Dynamic components including, interactives, third-party technologies. Games, VR, AR, etc. |
| Course Management | |
| Semester Setup | Cloning and enrollment of sections, gradebook and due dates, QA check. |
| Courses Formatted for LMS | Course format for LMS. Includes review of system configuration, course level settings, migration configuration, mapping of content, project management. and porting of all elements to new system. |
| Media Development & Video Production | |
| Media Assets | A variety of media assets are offered to meet the specific needs of each institution. Each encompasses the development of media strategy, planning, media packages, and production of course elements to include a mix of graphics, complex and/or simple interactive activities, and video. |
| Interactive Development | Custom design and development of learning games, interactive graphics. infographics, etc.. |
| Video Production | Video production as a stand-alone service to meet course needs. Includes light consultation on strategy. |
- Program Planning
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Program Planning Plan Development Component areas of the program planning stage: · Institutional Pedagogy
· Curriculum Mapping
· Assessment Plan
· Teaching Standards
· Technology Approach
· Course Design Convention
· Student Feedback Strategy
· Student Orientation Program
· Faculty Training & Development
- Course Development
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Course Development Base Design and development of a course designed to meet learning outcomes represent the program’s distinctiveness and fully engage learners. Course content is comprised of learning activities, formative and summative assessments, peer collaboration elements, and faculty presence elements. Additional Development Dynamic components including, interactives, third-party technologies. Games, VR, AR, etc. - Course Management
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Course Management Semester Setup Cloning and enrollment of sections, gradebook and due dates, QA check. Courses Formatted for LMS Course format for LMS. Includes review of system configuration, course level settings, migration configuration, mapping of content, project management. and porting of all elements to new system. - Media Development & Video Production
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Media Development & Video Production Media Assets A variety of media assets are offered to meet the specific needs of each institution. Each encompasses the development of media strategy, planning, media packages, and production of course elements to include a mix of graphics, complex and/or simple interactive activities, and video. Interactive Development Custom design and development of learning games, interactive graphics. infographics, etc.. Video Production Video production as a stand-alone service to meet course needs. Includes light consultation on strategy.
