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[addaiandmari]

I've been asked to create a full credit course for an independent institution but I can't find any guidelines on a fee structure for such work. The institution will hold the copyright for the course. Has anyone had experience with this? Where might I find how much I could charge for this work? Thanks!

[envisioneer]

I did this once. The institution's policy was to pay an independent course developer the same fee that an adjunct would receive for teaching the course. I thought that was a pretty good approach to compensation.

[addaiandmari]

Thanks for the response. That does seem to be reasonable.

[mathprofdk]

I can only speak from our own faculty contract, but we're compensated similarly - the rate equivalent to what teaching the course as an "overload" would be.  It's similar to the adjunct rate.  We have a salary schedule for adjuncts, so it depends, but it's roughly equivalent.

[larryc]

Ask for $10k and see what happens.

[melba_frilkins]

All of the above. Payment equal to teaching the same course seems to be common. But ask for much more and see what happens. In an old thread, someone posted an article about what private corporations charge to set up content for e-learning/training and it was astronomical.

Several years ago, I was paid 2x the normal course fee to develop an online course and then to pilot it by offering it to 5 students. I believe the college did technically have the copyright to the content, but the intention was just for me to develop a online course to teach myself.

<reminiscing about what a joy it was to have just 5 students in an online class>