Planning

From the very beginning, the skilled staff at EE&O will help you put together the fundamental building blocks of your class. We’ll discuss:

• Your course or program ideas
• What course format you’ll offer
• The timeline for course development
• Overview of the course development process
• Getting your course into the class schedule
• Development opportunities and resources available to you

Instructional Design
Our expertise in distance education enables us to strongly support faculty as they develop their distance courses, learning modules, and instructional materials. EE&O's instructional designers are experienced educators who help faculty members implement their distance programs by:

• Consulting on course design and structure
• Providing individual hands-on production support
• Training faculty on distance-delivered/online environments
• Identifying specialized teaching strategies
• Supporting faculty during the delivery of the online course
• Implementing strategies to increase student interaction and keep workloads manageable
• Integrating your course into a course management system (like Blackboard)
• Supporting development of multi-media course materials (assignments, tests, etc.)
• Helping create interactive graphics, simulations, video and audio elements.

When you decide to put your class on a distance platform, you’re never alone. Your instructional designer will act as your partner, and execute your vision in a way that works effectively in its new learning environment.

Course & Program Marketing
Once your course or degree program is up and running, it can only become successful if the right students know about it. Our expert marketing department will get your class in front of the students who can benefit most from it. To do this, we fully leverage:

• Relationships with university advisors and with non-UNL personnel
• Advanced e-marketing techniques
• Targeted direct mail
• Copywriting and design services
• Specialized course bulletins