Ionas, I. G., & Easter, M. A., & Miller, W. H., & Neumeyer, G. M., & Taylor, V. D., & Weakley, G. K. (2012, June), The Design, Development, and Deployment of an Online, Portable, Blended Course for the Energy Industry Using Open-source Tools: Technological, Logistic, and Instructional Design Issues  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22041

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  Ionas, I. G., \& Easter, M. A., \& Miller, W. H., \& Neumeyer, G. M., \& Taylor, V. D., \& Weakley, G. K. (2012, June), \emph{The Design, Development, and Deployment of an Online, Portable, Blended Course for the Energy Industry Using Open-source Tools: Technological, Logistic, and Instructional Design Issues}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--22041

Ioan Gelu Ionas, Matthew A. Easter, William H. Miller, Gayla M. Neumeyer, Valerie Deitz Taylor, and Gwen K. Weakley.  "The Design, Development, and Deployment of an Online, Portable, Blended Course for the Energy Industry Using Open-source Tools: Technological, Logistic, and Instructional Design Issues".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22041 Internet.  17 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22041}
  Ioan Gelu Ionas, Matthew A. Easter, William H. Miller, Gayla M. Neumeyer, Valerie Deitz Taylor, and Gwen K. Weakley.
  "The Design, Development, and Deployment of an Online, Portable, Blended Course for the Energy Industry Using Open-source Tools: Technological, Logistic, and Instructional Design Issues".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/22041 Internet.  17 Jun, 2024

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AB  -                      Designing Online Courses for Portability:                 Technological and Instructional Design ChallengesMore and more often we learn of new courses or entire academic programs being brought online.While technologies have advanced in recent years, the question how to blend computertechnology with sound instructional design practices is very much alive, and even moreimportant when targeting content portability and authors are not computer savvy. This paperexplores the challenges faced in designing and implementing an online introductory course forthe energy industry when the primary objectives are reach, access, portability of content, andease of future content update.Proposed by the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) the course is designed forworkers in the energy industry. We were provided with the course content (theoretical) that at thetime was still under development by a third party. Using our experience developing online andblended curriculum for the energy industry, our task was to provide a contextualization of thetheoretical content through the use of scenarios and implement the final product in an onlineformat.From an instructional design perspective, with the theoretical content at hand, thecontextualization of the content through scenarios seemed easy at the beginning. The challengesbegan to surface when we started analyzing in more depth our options for standards and softwareapplications. Below is a summary of the challenges we faced and some of the key decisions wemade during this process, organized by the four objectives we set for ourselves: reach, access,portability, and easy update. While presented individually in the paragraph below, the final paperwill also include a section that will discuss how the technical and instructional designconsiderations intermixed to produce a pathway towards the final product.Reach. Will discuss a variety of options considered for the delivery of this course, accompaniedby a pro and con analysis. Will also provide an overview of the decisions made and their impacton the other objectives.Access. Will discuss pros and cons of the two major competing technologies that support thedevelopment of portable online learning content - Adobe Flash and the mix of HTML, CSS, andJavaScript as well as our decisions. Will include a discussion about the various softwareapplications available for developing the learning content for the standards we chose to use forportability (SCORM), with a focus on open source software.Portability. Will discuss the various standards available today for packaging online learningcontent for portability, analyzing their pros and cons and supporting our decision to use theSCOM standard.Ease of update. Will provide an analysis of how the need for content update impacts thetechnology and software we are using for development.
AU  - Ioan Gelu Ionas
AU  - Matthew A. Easter
AU  - William H. Miller
AU  - Gayla M. Neumeyer
AU  - Valerie Deitz Taylor
AU  - Gwen K. Weakley
CY  - San Antonio, Texas
DA  - 2012/06/10
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - The Design, Development, and Deployment of an Online, Portable, Blended Course for the Energy Industry Using Open-source Tools: Technological, Logistic, and Instructional Design Issues
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--22041
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