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printed material, professional studio video recordings and phone tutoring – into an online course. Theredesign involved an adjunct professor in the Humanities having some experience in distance education but little with learning technologies. It was a two-year project including the grant application process. The main issues included replacing televisionbased content with multimedia content; understanding the complexity of interactions between materials, students, and tutors; and adapting traditional assessment approaches to online instruments and methods.  \nKeywords: online assessment instruments; the MISA instructional design method;  \nmultimedia in education; prototyping; redesign; Humanities; visual modeling  \nThe institutional context  \nThis case took place at St-Lawrence University (SLU), a mid-sized Canadian university with approximately 200 online courses. Thierry had been working for 10 years as an instructional designer, collaborating with several schools on all kinds of projects involving technology and pedagogy. One of those schools was Social Sciences where he had worked on a few projects over the past years and, as a result, had established a professional relationship with Dr. Brisebois, the School Academic Projects coordinator.  \nDr. Brisebois had just invited Thierry to a meeting with Julie, an adjunct professor, about the online adaptation of a distance education course already offered by the school,“The History of Social Sciences in North America”.  \nThe key players  \nThierry: instructional designer  \nJulie: adjunct Humanities professor and content expert  \nDr. Brisebois: Academic Projects Coordinator for the School of Humanities  \nSophie: multimedia specialist  \nStart-up Meeting  \nAfter the usual introductions, Dr. Brisebois reminded Thierry and Julie that, as both a professor and the School’s coordinator, he had full responsibility for the course. Since Julie had been in charge of the course for many years, she would act as a subject matter expert (SME) for this new version.  \nDr. Brisebois: \"As you both know, our university is progressively moving towards online learning and is encouraging all efforts in this direction. Recently, Julie told me that the distance course that she had been teaching for some years and which had 200 enrollments was due for a review. Is that right, Julie?”  \nJulie: \"That’s right! The telecourse is more than ten years old and does not even make use of the Internet. The Program Committee has decided it is time for an overhaul.”  \nDr. Brisebois explained that the idea was to redesign this course that included printed material, television-based video recordings, and phone tutoring and turn it into a new up-to-date course. As this telecourse revolved around a series of recorded interviews  \nand animations, he said: “A new series must be designed and filmed. And a website should be added.”  \nThierry: That sounds like a good idea. There are so many things that can be done with a course website these days. But, if you’ll allow me a question…why do we have to redo all of the recordings? TV production is so expensive these days and a website offers so many ways to present course content. In addition, SLU just doesn’t fund studio-quality recordings anymore.  \nDr. Brisebois: I’ll put it simply: studio recordings that are broadcast on an education channel is the way to go. Sure, we can modernize the concept but we are not going to throw everything out and start from scratch. Besides, I have to say that I’m quite fond of courses broadcast on the education channel. I’ve heard that there are some external sources of funding to which we could apply. I’ve also heard that you, Thierry, were an expert in grant-writing. 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