Prioritizing Online Course Preparedness Using PACE Matrix Instructions

Prioritizing Online Course Preparedness Using PACE Matrix Instructions for using the PACE Prioritization Matrix for your online course Purpose: A PACE matrix helps you prioritize the tasks and preparations you will need to complete to be prepared to teach your online course. • Determine your track. If you do not know the answers to these questions ask your department or use Track 3. • Is your online course already developed? • Was your course designed to meet quality standards? If no, use Track 3. If yes, go to next question. • Was your course designed with the intention that different faculty would be teaching it? If yes, use Track 1. • Was your course designed with the intention that a specific faculty would teach it? If yes, use Track 2. 1. Create a Task List. Determine some common tasks that need to be completed to fully prepare your online course. Some of these tasks may have been completed previously by another instructor or a course designer. Therefore you will only need to evaluate or review them. Number all the ideas, however the number does not indicate priority. There are some suggested tasks pre-populated on following pages. 2. Determine what your definitions are for Difficult and Easy Implementation Effort and High and Low Anticipated Benefit. 3. Use the PACE Prioritization Matrix and the Task List to add tasks to your matrix. Draw in the numbered circles into the Matrix where you think they should go on the Matrix according to Effort and Benefit. 4. Use the Matrix to guide your preparedness. Priority – These tasks have the highest anticipated benefit and are the easiest to implement. These should be implemented first. Action – These tasks have slightly lower benefit but are still relatively easy to implement. These should occur as a follow-up after the P tasks have been implemented. Consider – After P and A tasks have been implemented review the tasks that were in the Consideration area. You can decide whether the difficulty encountered with implementation is worth the benefit. Eliminate – These tasks should be eliminated because their low benefit is not worth the high cost in effort. This PACE Prioritization Matrix was adapted from The Karen Martin Group, Inc. The matrix is a LEAN engineering tool developed to increase efficiency. LEAN principles were originally created by Toyota. facdev. niu. edu/onlineteaching

Prioritizing Online Course Preparedness Using PACE Matrix Track 1: Multiple Faculty Delivery / Best Practice Course Development 6 21 Ease of Implementation Priority 22 16 1 7 14 12 23 3 Action 13 8 28 24 15 27 Instructional Approaches 4 25 Consider 5 18 Eliminate Difficult High 10 Anticipated Benefit 19 20 29 30 Priority – These tasks have the highest anticipated benefit and are the easiest to implement. These should be implemented first. Action – These tasks have slightly lower benefit but are still relatively easy to implement. These should occur as a follow-up after the P tasks have been implemented. 17 26 9 Structure 11 2 Easy Content Consider – After P and A tasks have been implemented review the tasks that were in the Consideration area. You can decide whether the difficulty encountered with implementation is worth the benefit. Low Eliminate – These tasks should be eliminated because their low benefit is not worth the high cost in effort.

Prioritizing Online Course Preparedness Using PACE Matrix Track 2: Single Faculty Delivery / Best Practice Course Development 11 2 Easy Content Structure 1 6 Priority 12 13 14 Ease of Implementation 15 7 16 21 3 22 Action 17 24 4 27 18 25 8 5 23 Instructional Approaches 28 Consider Action – These tasks have slightly lower benefit but are still relatively easy to implement. These should occur as a follow-up after the P tasks have been implemented. 26 Eliminate Difficult High 9 10 Anticipated Benefit 19 Priority – These tasks have the highest anticipated benefit and are the easiest to implement. These should be implemented first. 20 29 30 Consider – After P and A tasks have been implemented review the tasks that were in the Consideration area. You can decide whether the difficulty encountered with implementation is worth the benefit. Low Eliminate – These tasks should be eliminated because their low benefit is not worth the high cost in effort.

Prioritizing Online Course Preparedness Using PACE Matrix Track 3: Single Faculty Delivery / Organic Course Development Easy 6 1 Priority Ease of Implementation Structure 21 7 16 2 3 Content 15 11 Action 23 28 24 12 4 13 8 14 5 22 27 Instructional Approaches 17 Consider 25 Action – These tasks have slightly lower benefit but are still relatively easy to implement. These should occur as a follow-up after the P tasks have been implemented. 18 26 Eliminate Difficult High 9 10 Anticipated Benefit 19 20 29 30 Priority – These tasks have the highest anticipated benefit and are the easiest to implement. These should be implemented first. Consider – After P and A tasks have been implemented review the tasks that were in the Consideration area. You can decide whether the difficulty encountered with implementation is worth the benefit. Low Eliminate – These tasks should be eliminated because their low benefit is not worth the high cost in effort.