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For faculty and instructors
In addition to meeting any personal learning outcomes that you set for yourself, by the end of this source, you will have:

• Understood the challenges and opportunities of making the move from face-to-face teaching to online
• Experienced what it is like to be students in an online or blended environment and apply that experience when designing a class.
• Become familiar with and applied theoretical best practices (e.g., constructive alignment, backward design universal design) in course design and in the development of assessments and learning activities
• Designed graded and non-graded activities and rubrics
• Considered and evaluated the pedagogical effectiveness of different online tools
• Understood your and your students’ responsibilities around broader issues such as Universal Design and accessibility, copyright/IP, academic integrity
• Identified other faculty who are also developing online courses/course components with the same theoretical and academic standards

For IDFS staff

In partnership with the instructors enrolled in your course, you (as an IDFS member) will have:

• Collaborated in the completion of a syllabus and course approval form for their campuses. We acknowledge that this process will vary from campus to campus.
• Defined and planned out subsequent course planning activities and meetings (after this course) with librarians, media experts, and other campus staff so that instructors know whom they need to work with in order to create and deliver their course.
• Tested and provided feedback and recommended resources to the IDFS; the goal being the continuous improvement of a high-quality, flexible resource for all the UCs (and their instructional designers and faculty development teams) to use.