AII: FND110 DRAWING
The first of it's kind, Observational Drawing set the bar for course design across all AiOnline programs. As the Subject Matter Expert (SME) I had the opportunity to write, do photography, draw and to design interactive learning tools for the course I taught that would eventually run several hundred sections each year. This course allowed me to consider how a traditional drawing studio could be experienced in an asynchronous digital environment. To achieve the level of quality I envisioned, I donated the use of 36 drawings and approximately 50 photographs of my work to the project for the benefit of my students and to demonstrate what is possible in online learning environments.
While I wrote and designed this course in 2009, as the AFS Curriculum Committee Chair and then later as Assistant Online Program Director, I directed the ongoing tasks of identifying and quantifying instructional design areas for improvements based on what we were learning about online learning at the time. And then provided short-term and long-term solutions for a new instructional design model that streamlined existing content, improved interaction and engagement, addressed teaching barriers, and better met faculty expectations with regard to curriculum for not only FND110 but for all Art Foundations courses. This resulted in the AFS Instructional Design Guidelines which was a set of guidelines that the Curriculum Committee presented to instructors, subject matter experts, project managers, online instructional designers, and programmers to guide them on how to build our courses to ensure an optimal user experience that resulted in student success and retention.