Renderas:sect3. Impact on the Organization

The design and development phases spell out the course's expected benefits and costs to the organization. The careful planner keeps costs proportionate to benefits.

Course design begins with broad planning or macro-level planning, moves toward midlevel planning for units or modules (also called mesolevel), and ends with detailed lesson or learning plans at the microlevel. For example, in the design or planning phase, a class designer may feel that a film offers the best overview for a course. In the development phase, he or she will select or create a particular film.

During both phases, the course designer considers:

Instructional objectives What must the film show to introduce concepts that meet the ...

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