Standards and Process Applied in Development of Comprehensive Online Courses at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

Development of comprehensive online courses has to consider several aspects to enable them to be a useful and usable resource. The well-developed online-course should contain, course information, both course and modules objectives, interactions, animations and self-tests. Moreover, the course subject and contents should be completed and designed according to a well-developed and systematic blue-print. Quality-assurance processes should also be practiced in all levels of course development and even should start from the stage of the content preparation. This paper explains the development procedure and steps followed at KFUPM in producing comprehensive online courses in engineering, sciences and humanities subjects. The paper also explains what resources and man-power are needed in the development in-order to produce a well-developed online course. Furthermore, what measures and issues need to be applied after the course development and use.