IASA

Course Development Guidelines

To create a course the author must submit:

•  Course Instruct Application (word)  
• The course topic and description
• The learning objectives and student exit criteria
• A course outline
• The target length of the course (in topics or weeks)
• The author’s qualifications for delivering the course

Once You've Been Selected

Once you have been selected as a course instructor you will be invited into the course instructor development process. IASA e-learning staff has designed a very robust process to ensure your success. After you have been notified of you selection as a course author an IASA instructor administrator will contact you to walk you through the process. The following sections introduce you to the process.

Process

Course instructors follow a relatively simple process to develop their course material. IASA has developed an online course which mirrors and supports the timeline and activities in the development process. After your selection as an instructor, you will be contacted by an instructor administrator who will give you access to the course author training course. This course lasts roughly 12 weeks and guides each instructor through the process. Instructors will be authoring a syllabus document in a word processor and roughly 10 power point files. Each power point file will be 45-60 slides. This process takes 12 weeks and results in files that can be used by the course development team (a group of instructional designers, e-learning professionals and production experts). The production staff will take another 12 weeks to convert your course to the final output.  Learn More

Instructor Training

Creating instructional content is a little different than creating a standard powerpoint presentation. In addition, content from your course will be used to support the IASA Associate Certification. While IASA does not expect you to become an expert instructional designer (we have professional instructors to help you), there are many opportunities for you to improve the quality of the final output by understanding the options available for e-learning courses. We will be giving you some training and resources to help optimize your course content as you begin development.  Learn More

Deliverables

Your primary deliverables for the course are as follows. Examples of deliverables as well as the final output are provided where possible.

• Syllabus document (pdf, rtf) (template: pdf, rtf) - the syllabus document defines the learning objectives and detailed course modules for the student
  10 Course module powerpoint files (example ppt) (example output) - instructors create basic powerpoints which the production teams turn into the output files
• Voice over files (example mp3) - in most cases course instructors create their own voice over files
• References document - any references to other peoples work are delivered seperately
• Associated content files (example pdf, jpg, excel) - courses may provide useful content related to the course such as word document templates, uml diagrams or excell templates

IP Ownership and Fee Structure

The license model requires that IASA own the Intellectual Propoerty developed for the course so that we may deliver it in appropriate settings in return for royalty payments to the author on a per student basis. In cases where a company owns existing IP in course content the IASA will negotiate an appropriate license to provide the content online. The course author will maintain a full license to use the material for personal or corporate delivery in addition to IASA channels. Using this model, the IASA will provide upfront development costs.