Building Quality Assessment into Online Courses Across the Institution

Michael L. Rodgers (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 237
EISBN13: 9781613500156|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-942-7.ch016
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Abstract

This case shows how a long-term, campus-wide effort balanced technological, pedagogical, financial, and political considerations to develop and implement a system for online course quality assessment at a medium-sized public university in the Midwest. The case shows how the need for an assessment system came to be recognized, and how the committee charged with creating the system arrived at a solution which took into account both course design and instructor performance. Thus, the institution now has, for the first time, a tool for improving the quality of its online courses. Moreover, it is hoped that administrators, faculty, and faculty developers will see that the quality assessment system joins a course management software suite development effort and a series of faculty training workshops in a wide-ranging list of tools for enhancing faculty competence as users of technology for teaching and learning.
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