Unit 1. Starting Out Right

Analyze the Need for IMI

• Complete media & cost-benefit analyses
• Hybrid approach
• Search DAVIS/DITIS
• Survey student population

Your Distance Learning Team

• Putting together a local team
• Your external IMI team

Planning Activities

• Official reference material
• Memo of understanding (MOU)
• Career Development Course Chart
• Evaluation plan
• Multimedia
• Planning checklist

Unit 2. Writing Objectives and Test Items

Writing Objectives

• Learning objectives
• Topical statements
• Marking proficiency codes

Selecting & Writing Interactive Test Items

• Short-answer
• To measure higher levels of learning
• Matching
• True-false
• Multiple choice

Building Feedback for Interactive Test Items

• Content
• Format

Building an Itempool for Testing

• Format and content
• Developing a U0.doc file
• Developing UREs & CE
• Developing CE for e-testing
• Checklist 

Unit 3. Designing a Framework for
Your Course

Select an Organizational Pattern

• Go from the simple to the complex
• Go from the known to the unknown
• Other organizational patterns

Use Standard Text Breakdowns

• Menus
• Titles & headings
• Bullets & lists

Required Elements and Conventions

• Required elements
• Numbering conventions
• Naming folders & files 

Unit 4. Copyright Law

Copyright Law Basics

• Copyright references
• What is copyright?
• What is not protected by copyright?
• How long is a work copyrighted?
• What is the "fair use" exemption?

AFIADL Requirements for Publication

• Criteria for publication
• Written information
• Graphics & photographs
• Videotapes & sound
• Checklist

Frequently Asked Questions

Unit 5. Interactivity, Storyboarding,
and Screen Design

What is Interactivity?

• Navigation vs. interactivity
• Techniques to increase interactivity

Creating Storyboards

• Templates
• Educational review & edit
• Marking test item support
• Coordinating with your ISS

Screen Design Principles

• Text color
• Margins
• Titles & headings
• Text screens
• Cautions, warnings, notes
• Storyboard checklist 

Unit 6. Authoring Your Course

Authoring Software

• ADL initiative
• HTML

Audio, Graphics & Video

• Audio
• Graphics
• Video 

Unit 7. Evaluating Your Course

Official References

Types of Evaluation

• Formative
• Summative
• Operational

Evaluation Reports

Unit 8. Course Activation

Timing is Everything

• Burn master CDs
• Debug master CDs
• Create CD-ROM label
• Create a CD-ROM insert
• Prepare an AFIADL Catalog entry
• Prepare a student survey

Duplicating Services: DAPS

Activation Checklist 

Unit 9. Resource Guide

CDCs & Specialized Courses

Multimedia (mostly copyright-free)

• DOD sources
• USG sources

Multimedia (copyrighted)

• Software providers

AF DL Organizations