Course Development Services
Life-long learning is central to our 21st century world. Whether you are a college student advancing toward a degree, a graduate student specializing in a specific discipline, or a professional looking for certification and training in your chosen field, training is critical to your success. A good course starts with instructional design to ensure that it identifies the course objectives and teaches learners exactly what they need to know. From there, the writing, layout, interactive activities, and design engage learners and keep them focused on the course. Finally, assessing and remediating learners’ progress ties back to the objectives and ensures good results. If you need help with any of this process or all of it, nSight is your partner.
nSight’s unique services customize a solution that fits your goals. From instructional design and content development to project management, from layout and design to technology and production, nSight offers publishing and editorial expertise that will help you complete your project on time, on budget, and with the highest editorial standards.
Our services include developing new courses for instructor-led or online use or adapting existing ones to map the content for a new product version or textbook series to learning objectives for the course. This service includes:
- Devising syllabi to meet course objectives, including weekly course objectives and lesson plans, and mapping content to meet those objectives
- Devising lecture notes, PPT slides, discussion questions, and examples from the textbook material and other resources
- Writing assignments, quizzes, and exams; providing answer keys and solutions
- Writing study guides to help the student work on specific assignments and goals
- Providing instructor tips for teaching the class
In addition, these courses can be adapted and revised for online delivery, including:
- A home page that includes the course description, syllabus, course objectives, course policies and procedures, as well as listing credit hours and how the course maps to certification or degree requirements
- A weekly home page with instructions for that week
- Interactive exercises, quizzes, and exams; self-evaluation and instructor-evaluation processes
- On-ground content adapted for an online course, including lecture notes, syllabus, help page, study guide, and references
This work is done by a combination of subject matter experts and our in-house team of expert course designers, web designers, and programmers. We are able to design an original Web site for these purposes or use existing proprietary tools such as WebCT, Blackboard, or eCollege.
Some typical course projects nSight has handled include:
- Creation of online and on-ground courses in publishing and documentation skills and tools
- Repurposing of book content into courses that an instructor can use in conjunction with a textbook
- Help with assessments and feedback
- PowerPoint slides that enhance a course’s effectiveness
- Conversion of courses from one e-learning platform and system to another
Contact nSight for Immediate Assistance
Whether you need expert advice or an expert team to make your course project a success, call Elizabeth St. Germaine today at 781-273-6300 for immediate assistance, or complete our service inquiry form below.
