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Stephen Downes

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The myth is that "A Faculty Member Can Individually Develop and Deliver an Effective Online Course." The authors explain, "Developing and delivering an online course requires numerous and varied skills--skills that are unlikely to be found in a single individual. Teams will probably be more effective." It is interesting to contrast this article with one on the same subject I wrote in 1998. In it, I identified three motivations for the use of course design teams: "the need for standardized course packages... economics... [and] control over copyright and content." As I commented then, "from the point of view of a traditional instructor, none of these reasons may seem to be very palatable." This article doesn't grapple with anything other than the economics - and is therefore likely to be viewed with a similarly sceptical eye by today's designers.

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