Culture and Online Course Development: How educational models empower K-12 learning.
Brief Abstract
Creating a great team with a strong culture is essential for developing any online course. Learn how to leverage the power of your culture with the right course development model to super-charge your team, create great results, and lead to more engaging experiences for your learners.
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Extended Abstract
Creating a great team with a strong culture is essential for developing any online course. Culture gives your team purpose, augments their understanding, and ultimately supports learners. However, the model of course development that you use might contradict your culture and lead to challenges. Leveraging the power of your culture with the right course development model can super-charge your team, create great results and lead to more engaging experiences for your learners. In this session, we’ll explore an example of these cultures and models in action, and how these models can empower your course development.
Understanding the culture of your organization can help you lead your teams effectively and guide a path of growth. Most schools, boards, and organizations adopt one of four different cultures: collegial, developmental, specialist, or managerial. Each prioritizes different values and roles of educators. Based on the culture of your organization, educators create content, build courses, and work with students differently. Knowing which culture exists in your organization can help you lead the development of courses.
Like the different cultures, there are multiple ways to create online courses. Online course development models help to organize resources, determine quality, and leverage the skills of teams. These range from solo teachers developing materials for their students to multi-team projects using the resources of large organizations. Each model is useful in different situations and can help you better understand the process of course development in your and other organizations.
So how do these cultures and models connect? By aligning the right model to your culture, you can supercharge your course development and get the best results for students. So come join us and learn how to empower your team by aligning how you develop courses with your culture.
Level of Participation
Participants will be presented with the kinds of organizational cultures and models of course development in a short presentation with examples in practice of each. Afterward, they will work in breakout groups of 3-4 to find connections in their own experiences and share them with the larger group. These can be when cultures and models align and produce great results. Alternatively, it can be when cultures and models do not align and the results that might challenge us or spur new innovations.
Session Goals
Individuals attending the session will be able to identify the culture at their organization and recognize cultures in other educational institutions based on examples. They will be able to critically analyze course development models in their institution and different methods for course development used in other organizations. Finally, they will be able to assess the connections between culture and course development models in their own organizations.