Week 3 Purposeful Planning

From reading the first part of Chapter 3, I can take away "sticking with a plan" when designing and developing a course. The authors and from the videos highlight that when creating an online course one must not stay on task and have a solid foundation for the course. Furthermore, I understand the importance of course objectives linked to learning outcomes. I firmly believe you these two items are clear and concise that everything else will fall in place for the course. In planning with a purpose, the course should set out the goals and its objectives.

On the brink of graduating in Higher Education and Administration, I find it extremely important for the students in the program to understand the budget process as future administrators or leaders in their realm of higher education. I would like to create a course centered around Budgeting and Accounting for Higher Edcuation. The goal for this course is to understand more than just the surface level of budgeting and accounting in higher education and these two related subjects. The objectives will be the following:

• Analyze budget requests on a university-level and department-level looking at financial statements
• Setting up a budget for line items across the board
• Examine institutions data and trends nationally, regionally, and locally
• Understand how to process transactions and steps for budgeting in higher education
• Introduced to the history of funding higher education

I have an background in accounting and find extremely important for the citizens that pay taxes understand how institutions use and apply these funds appropriately. Please take the time to check out Alabama financial report.