The 3 D's

The past few weeks we've been figuring out the process for the Design, Development and Delivery of the UPP on-line training modules. The 3 D's were new to us. It took a little while to get our heads around them. Design and development sound like the same thing but actually they are completely different. Design involves module content, activities and evaluation ideas. Development is the technical side where the activities are formatted into working items that students can complete on-line. Development includes creating the on-line Moodle activities and surveys, flash animations and so on. The first few times, Delivery to students is usually done by the Designer, just to make sure everything works the way they designed it to work.

Thanks to a KL&S board member, who coordinates ACE on-line at St. Lawrence College, we now have a good understanding of what needs to be done. I'll spend some time deciding on a framework that will be applied to each module. We will hire contract curriculum designers, who will most probably teachers who have already used the UPP curriuculm in a class. And we will get advise on who to hire to do the development part. The delivery will start in October.