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The UGA Online Course Development Process and Why It Works

December 15, 2025

For online programs that are in production with UGA Online, we use a process that looks a bit different from the way many faculty members would choose to build courses on their own. We begin working at the program level to standardize the course shells the entire program will use; we do this because our focus is helping adult learners concentrate on the content and skills they need to be successful in a program, not on figuring out how one instructor has organized an assignment dropbox differently from the last.