Guidelines for Online Course Development

The following sites provide guidelines for course development. You may find that these guidelines provide a useful checklist for any online course development that you do.

Canadian Recommended E-learning Guidelines
http://www.logos-net.net/ilo/150_base/en/init/can_16.htm

Blackboard Exemplary Course Criteria
http://www.webct.com/exemplary
These criteria for course development are applied to exemplary courses that are identified each year within those institutions using Blackboard.

Rubric for Online Instruction
Have a look at these rubrics for various aspects of online course development such as course design, student support,
innovative teaching and assessment.
These would provide helpful guides for anyone developing an online course.
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi

Michigan Virtual University Standards for Quality Online Courses
http://standards.mivu.org/

Evaluation Checklist for Web Based Courses
This summary checklist adapted from Pallof and Pratt's book called Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom: The Realities of Online Teaching, provides a handy, succinct checklist for ensuring criteria for good course design are being met.