ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the ways of hiring designers, support staff, and videographers, planning course development, holding a development kickoff meeting, motivating faculty, building universal design, avoiding multiple copies of content, and deciding what technologies to use during the course design process. The course development plan should be created by faculty, ideally with assistance from designers. Faculty are the driving force behind course development and teaching, but instructional designers and other production staff can be very helpful to them. One of the enduring opportunities of online education stems from the continual evolution and improvement of technology and its associated pedagogy. Task-management software helps coordinate development and support tasks. The software also helps ensure that tasks are handed off properly. When the course content has been written, best practice is for it to be reviewed by copy editors before it is implemented. Copy-editing primarily addresses grammar, writing style, and clarity issues.
