Course Development / PARTNR Defined
PARTNR is the CPS model of course design and development.
It emphasizes collaboration between faculty and learning designers and drives both faster development and higher course quality.
Regis University’s College for Professional Studies struggled to design and develop an online course in less than 40 weeks until a task force of instructional designers and faculty put their heads together and invented PARTNR (yes, we know the spelling is a tad creative). The charge was primarily around speed of development, but other issues involved confusing and inconsistent course structures and potential lack of alignment between an individual course and its program.
PARTNR includes not only a design and development process but also a more streamlined and consistent course structure, added focus on facilitation skills, and a clearer delineation of responsibilities, relieving a good deal of toe-stepping.
The acronym PARTNR stands for:
P Plan (planning or design document, comprising entire course)
A Author/Assemble (development of content)
R-1 Review (content review by subject matter expert in appropriate School)
T Turn [into a course] (moving content into LMS)
N N-Hance (adding visual and interactive elements)
R-2 Rubric (review of finished course using Quality Matters+ Rubric
Regis University’s College for Professional Studies struggled to design and develop an online course in less than 40 weeks until a task force of instructional designers and faculty put their heads together and invented PARTNR (yes, we know the spelling is a tad creative). The charge was primarily around speed of development, but other issues involved confusing and inconsistent course structures and potential lack of alignment between an individual course and its program.
PARTNR includes not only a design and development process but also a more streamlined and consistent course structure, added focus on facilitation skills, and a clearer delineation of responsibilities, relieving a good deal of toe-stepping.
The acronym PARTNR stands for:
P Plan (planning or design document, comprising entire course)
A Author/Assemble (development of content)
R-1 Review (content review by subject matter expert in appropriate School)
T Turn [into a course] (moving content into LMS)
N N-Hance (adding visual and interactive elements)
R-2 Rubric (review of finished course using Quality Matters+ Rubric