One of the traps when developing courses which include digital resources is the lack of a team approach. Traditionally the lecturer / teacher manages the whole process – lecture, handout, class activity. This gets a bit shaky when you start layering in elements that require more specialised skills. As the project gets bigger or if it goes online, the teacher may find themselves in the role of “content expert” with more of “their” decisions being made by learning/instructional designers, and the process managed by a project manager. In my experience, the lack of planning around team roles and responsibilities is were most projects fall over.
With that in mind, this short article from the Online Learning Consortium about the systems approach used in online Master of Engineering Technical Management at Texas A&M University is worth a read.