Processes Assisting Online Course Development and
Offering
These processes include the following relative to online courseware development.
1. Course Content Processes Generally
2. Text and Hypertext Processes
3. Graphics Processes
4. Audio Processes, Including Streaming
5. Multimedia Processes, Including Streaming
6. Video Processes, Including Streaming
7. Processes for Threaded Discussion Initial Content
8. Processes for Document Sharing
9. Processes for Course Administration
10. Processes for Various Forms of Chat (Text, Audio, Video)
11. Processes for Transfer of Courseware to Servers
Many of theses processes require special hardware or software support tools, and support people with special expertise. This particularly increasingly applies as media ranges from text and hypertext, through graphics, audio, multimedia, and video. Special tools and personnel are typically also required for streaming.
The processes below include the following relative to online courseware offering.
1. E-Mail and E-Mail Attachment Processes
2. Processes for Grading Student work Online
3. Online Testing and Automatic Grading
4. Threaded Discussion Navigation, Elaboration, and Grading
5. Document Sharing
6. Chat
The first two processes in the list above are often overlooked for automation such that instructor time and effort are saved, and students are better served.
Tools supporting optimization of processes in both lists above will be considered next.