The OCBI model shown in Table 1 recommends which type of outside advisor might be helpful to the team during each activity in each stage. OCBI staff members who can suggest appropriate CBE techniques. During later stages of lesson development, advice is also sought from students who are taking or have already taken the course, and people who have a feel for writing careful and accurate text at the appropriate instructional level. Much of the reviewing of materials by people outside the team, however, takes place at formal lesson reviews. Each lesson review is attended by the team members, the project manager, interested faculty members, interested CBE developers, and occasionally by students who have taken the course.
Lesson reviews focus on the structure and approach of the lesson.
They look at the text, layout, graphics, interaction, feedback, help, and branching of each display. The process begins with the proposal stage. The faculty member works with one of the OCBI managers to develop a written plan for courseware development. Once the proposal is funded, a team is put together as described above. During the design stage, the team plans the lesson in detail and works out the design, display by display, in the form of a paper script.