Purdue's Distance Learning Faculty
Continuing Education Distance Learning offers extensive resources to assist faculty members who are developing or are interested in developing online courses. The resources we offer include:
2008 Purdue Distance Learning Award for Excellence [pdf]
One-on-one support
Purdue's Distance Learning provides consulting services as well as full scale instructional design and development services. To schedule an appointment with Tianhong Shi, distance learning instructional designer, please e-mail her at tshi@purdue.edu or call (765) 49-41399.
Online resources for instructional design
How can I open a Blackboard Vista course account on West Lafayette Open Campus?If you do not already have an account, create one on West Lafayette Open Campus by picking a username and password. Your Purdue career account and West Lafayette Campus WebCT account user name and password will not generate an account for you on West Lafayette Open Campus.
- Send an e-mail to itap@purdue.edu, indicating that you need to open a Blackboard Vista course account on West Lafayette Open Campus. Include the username you just created for Open Campus in the e-mail. You will receive e-mail notification from ITaP once your account has been opened. When you have received notification, you can log into Open Campus Blackboard as a course designer and course instructor.
If you would like to visit an online course developed by one of your peers, please contact the faculty member for access to their course as an audit student. Here is a list of faculty members [pdf] currently teaching and/or developing distance learning online courses:
Instructional Design Theories and Practices
Analysis > Design > Development > Implementation > Evaluation
- Analysis: instructor and learner
- Design: interface design and instructional strategies
- Development: You've got support! IDC consulting and training staff at ITaP and Tianhong Shi at CEC Distance Learning
- Implementation: Tips for online teaching
- Evaluation: This evaluation rubric [pdf] is used to clarify expectations and evaluation methods. Purdue faculty members developing distance courses can use this rubric as a guideline for their course design and development. They can also perform self-assessment using the rubric, prior to the completion of course development.