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Benoits Time?
Posted by: Thomas Kritikos | June 10, 2009 | Comments Off on Benoits Time?
How much Development time (in weeks) would you Estimate Benoit would need to Develop Business Writing, the Online version?
I’ll start off by assuming that the online version of the Business Writing course will be approximately 12 weeks in length for students to complete. Normally, the duration of a face-to-face course would roughly also be 12 weeks at 3 hours of class time per week, making this a 36-hour face-to-face experience. Since Benoit already has the print version of the course, which includes readings and other notes, I anticipate that he would be able to save a considerable amount of time on the researching aspect of the online course. Benoit will still need to change and modify some aspects of the course as I don’t think he could just import the course to his online format without some changes. I anticipate that he will require 1.5 hours of work time per 1 hour of online course to be able to create the online version, for a total of 54 hours (1.5 x 36= 54 hours). Benoit does have some experience in web-design and has used WebCT in the past, so his learning curve will not be as steep as someone without this background. However, he will still need to be able to function efficiently within the LMS and this will require his considerable attention to make the learning experience a challenging and fruitful one for his students. I anticipate that he will need approximately 15 minutes per hour, of 1 hour of online course time, (0.25 x 36 = 9 hours), which will equal 9 hours of time. In total, (54+9=63 hours) Benoit will require 63 hours of time to write the online version of the Business course. As Benoit could spend approximately 5 hours of time per week writing the course, my calculation of 63 hours time needed to write course divided by 5 hours of write time per week would equal 12.6 weeks of work time for the online version of the Business Writing course.