Category Archives: Online Teaching

Sep 16

A Model for Enhancing Course Development

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In order to meet the growing demand for quality online education, Park University has adopted a model that provides a common framework for all of its online courses. Evelyn Knowles and Kathleen Kalata discuss the circumstances leading to the current system and describe the university’s implementation of a course development process that ensures quality and consistency in both content and instructional design. In this model, academic departments select which courses they want to have developed into online courses and the subject matter expert who will act as course developer. The course developer works with an instructional designer to create the online course. The course development process is described in detail, from initiating the contract through consultation with the instructional designer to quality standards review.

http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=456

May 15

The crystal ball says…

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Curtis Bonk of Indiana University–of Indiana, not Pennsylvania–always has interesting things to say about instructional technology and distance learning. He and a colleague published an article titled, “The Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: The Survey Says…“. As he states, a “…survey that substantiates some ideas about online learning and refutes others.”       http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0644.asp

Nov 20

Quality: I know it when I see it!

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The U.S. Department of Education published an excellent report that helps identify quality benchmarks in distance education.  Titled “Evidence of Quality in Distance Education Programs Drawn from Interviews with the Accreditation Community”, it can be found at http://www.ysu.edu/accreditation/Resources/Accreditation-Evidence-of-Quality-in-DE-Programs.pdf.