 When you were first given the charge to teach the Introduction to Distance Learning class, how did you analyze your students' potential needs and develop effective meaningful outcomes for the class? I was hired here to teach this class and what I was given was just the course description which had been written by someone else. So based on all of my background and the research I had done in my courses on distance education and what students needed, strategies for learning, learning outcomes, I compiled that information. Then I met with some instructors here that I had worked with before that were interested in putting up their courses online and talked to them about what their needs were, what their goals were. What it was, they needed to learn how to do so that they could effectively make the transition from traditional to online. And I compiled all of my information and to the best of my ability I wrote down my goals and objectives for what I wanted the learners to achieve and put my syllabus together. It was my hopes that I could create an authentic learning environment to meet their needs so that when they completed the course they would have a strong structural background to design their own course online. They could be given content but they would know how to go through the instructional design process to see which pieces would be most effective online.