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Excellent choice and much more academic! I am under time constraints here and what really interests me is the digital skills portion of the course. That's why I decided to use a course I had already authored. If you do instructional design for online courses, check out the Smith & Ragan book: Instructional design. We pretty much use the ADDIE model.
I'm feeling time pressure too so I'm starting to really appreciate the open design philosophy that it's better to have a working draft than an elaborate plan.
Here the ADDIE model is a foundational here too – or maybe I should say the "DDI" model, because assessment and evaluation steps are done in qualitative ways by academic departments and don't directly involve IDs. I checked out the 3rd edition Smith & Ragan on Amazon. $128 yikes! I couldn't find any references to online learning in the table of contents, intro or subject index. Do they address it?
I usually use open source references by educators with direct experience because online learning is evolving so quickly, and in a global context. Here's one good update on research, design and eval: Online Distance Ed: Towards a Research Agenda [1] (Free downloadable pdf version too).
