A Team-Based Collaboration Used for the Development of Transnational Online Distance Education Courses

Autor/inn/en	Crowley, Chris; Chen, Hailan; Cerver, Mercé Gisbert
Titel	A Team-Based Collaboration Used for the Development of Transnational Online Distance Education Courses
Quelle	In: International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 33 (2018) 2, (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2292-8588
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Distance Education; Forestry; Curriculum Development; Educational Cooperation; International Cooperation; Teamwork; Foreign Countries; College Curriculum; Satisfaction; Educational Quality; Student Attitudes; College Students; College Faculty; Australia; Philippines; Malaysia; China; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Ausland; Zufriedenheit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Australien; Philippinen; Kanada
Abstract	Using a team-based course development approach, the University of British Columbia collaborated with the Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet) and universities from Australia, the Philippines, Malaysia, China, and Canada to design and develop six transnational, online, distance-education courses covering diverse topics such as sustainable forest policy, international dialogues in global forestry issues and forest restoration. The team-based approach is commonly used in online course development to form a cost-effective managerial and development team that manages timelines, coordinates solutions, and oversees budgets, all of which are particularly challenging for an international collaboration among universities across the Asia-Pacific region, due to cultural differences and variations in teaching and learning practices. This paper gives an overview of the design and development of transnational, online, distance-education courses, and the results of a pilot study that put the completed courses through an in-house, evidence-based quality enhancement rubric and a written survey reporting the leading professors' satisfaction with the project management and instructional design services. The quality enhancement rubric showed that the course designs were of high quality and the written survey revealed that the subject matter experts were satisfied overall. However, many improvements were suggested and could be implemented to improve the quality of course design, and the collaboration in orientating subject matter experts to the team-based development process, and in implementing best practices for online course design. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01