Education, and the Online Advisory Committee to maintain sufficient parity between the online course and other modalities. For example, assessments of learning outcomes may require coordination between faculty teaching residential and online modalities. The academic department and the Director of Online Education should ensure that the SME has appropriate involvement in department meetings and assessment planning to ensure efficient coordination of objectives in online sections. Additionally, if the residential faculty votes to modify a learning outcome shared by multiple courses, they should ensure effective coordination with the Director of Online Education and the Online Advisory Committee, who will involve the program coordinator and SME of the affected online courses as needed. The department administrators must exercise particular care to ensure information-sharing with colleagues who are SMEs and may not be present on campus to participate in administrative meetings.
Beyond course development completed by third-party instructional designers in collaboration with SMEs, the SME is the primary individual responsible for developing, maintaining, and redeveloping an online primary course shell. All course developments and redevelopments are done by KYSU-approved Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), which could be a full-time faculty or adjunct faculty. Each course will be assigned a SME, and only the SME can change course content after seeking approval from the program coordinator and Director of Online Education.
Requests for course developments and redevelopments will be submitted through an online form, which can be accessed in consultation with the Office of Online Education. Once the SME completes the form, it will route to the program coordinator and Director of Online Education, who will open a development shell, which will become the primary course shell once development is complete. Once access has been granted to the development shell, the SME is responsible for ensuring that course content is aligned with the course learning outcomes. They must consult with their program coordinator to ensure the proper outcomes are listed for the course.
The SME must meet all development and redevelopment deadlines leading up to the online subterms in which the online course will be launched. These development deadlines are set by the Office of Online Education with reference to the course copy schedule for each online subterm. In general, the SME must complete development, redevelopments, and changes ten (10) weeks prior to the launch of the course in a subterm. Major updates would include changes to the course instructional content, course syllabus, or substantive changes to the course assignments.
When the SME has completed the course development, redevelopment, or changes, the program coordinator and Director of Online Education will review the development shell. They will evaluate the course for consistent design, alignment with learning outcomes, and support of regular and substantive interaction (RSI). This review should be completed at least eight (8) weeks before the targeted launch date, which allows time for the SME to adjust the course to the feedback of the reviewers, as needed. All changes must be finalized at least six (6) weeks prior to the launch date of the course to avoid interfering with the course copy process. Once all changes to the development shell are finalized, the Office of Online Education will convert the development shell into the primary course shell. The primary course shell becomes the version of the course from which individual sections are created each time it is offered.