A team-based approach to the production of online courseware (case study)

Formerly instructional systems design models have incorporated prescriptive linear phases of analysis, design and development, implementation and evaluation. While early adopters worked within these frameworks to develop online courseware, now in many institutions online development has been have centralised within both support units and online learning management systems. This paper uses the development of ‘Legal Frameworks’ as a case study to describe the way that one such support unit has responded with a changed approach to courseware development within its teamwork processes. It describes how the experts worked across the project in a lateral formation, and how this has facilitated a shared understanding of the course design and implementation, for both the support unit and the academic.