Content Map:

Courseware Engineering on the DE

Platform
MODULE 1:
Courseware for Today
and Beyond

MODULE 2:
Your Courseware
Strategy

MODULE 3:
Author on the DE
Platform

MODULE 4:
Courseware Rollout

Discuss the Shifting

Landscape

Assess Your Current

State

Develop a learning
capabilities graph

Review Courseware
Quality

Describe courseware
types

Define Your Goals

and Success Metrics

Lift and Shift

Courses

Set Expectations

Explain the Learning

Design Triangle

Build Your Roadmap

Engineer Courses
from Scratch

Complete
Administrative
Tasks

MODULE 5:
Ongoing Maintenance
and Feedback

Develop Your
Market

Collect Data and

Feedback

Monitor needs and

make in-situ
improvements

Courseware for Today and Beyond

Module 1

Discuss the Shifting Landscape

Describe courseware and the

Courseware Engineer

Explain the Learning Design

Triangle

The Problem We're Trying

to Solve, and a Solution

Types of courseware (e.g.,

adaptive, personalized,
LMS, CBL)

Capabilities

4 Ps of Personalization

What is a Courseware
Engineer?

Learning Activities

Measurement

Alignment

Defining Your Courseware Strategy

Module 2

Assess Your Current State

Articulate Goals and Success

Metrics

Build Your Roadmap

Pilot implementation stages

5 Pillars of Quality

Define Your MVP

Collect user feedback

Qualitative Data

Determine Pilot Strategy

Quantitative Data

Complete a needs analysis

Self analysis

Leveraging upcoming
releases

Authoring on the DE Platform

Module 3

Develop a learning capabilities

graph

Lift and Shift courses

Engineer Courses from Scratch

Define measurable
capabilities statements

Define rules of the content

script for an engineer

Authoring basics (e.g.,

navigation, structure,
upper/lower environments)

QA

Authoring best practices

(e.g., adding context,
rubrics, feedback)

Manual review

Advanced authoring (e.g.,

find/add, global/local,
import/export)

Organize capabilities into a

graph with a hierarchy

Courseware Rollout
Module 4

Review courseware quality

Set expectations

Complete Administrative Tasks

Stakeholder buy-in

Communicate level and

limitations of compliance (e.
g., 508, FERPA)

Publish and deploy a

course

Quality Assurance (e.g.,

software review, copy
edit/proofreading)

Articulate the stage of your

courseware on the pilot
implementation plan

Set expectations

Ongoing Maintenance and

Continuous Improvement
Module 5

Develop your market

Collect data and feedback

Monitor needs and make in-situ

improvements

Engage product champions

Review analytics
dashboards

Set up a feedback
monitoring process

Enlist users help (e.g.,

market research, user
testing)

Distribute feedback
instruments (e.g., survey)

Synchronize a course (e.

g., make ninja edits)