We conducted this research within the context of a faculty development course taught by the first author during the spring semester of 2003. In this class, faculty members and graduate students worked collaboratively to develop online courses to be taught the following year. The task of developing an online class was an authentic one—the College of Education at our university began offering an online Masters degree program, and courses had to be developed as part of the online offerings. As we have described elsewhere, the format of this course was created to integrate faculty development into our learning by design program already in place in the educational technology masters program (Koehler, Mishra, Hershey, & Peruski, 2004).