e-Teaching Symposium

Thank You For Attending e-Teaching Symposium: Quality Indicators for the Design and Evaluation of Blended and Online Courses

Our second e-Teaching Symposium of the academic year was held on Thursday, November 30, 2006. Professor Nancy Pogue and Renee Welch addressed Quality Indicators for the Design and Evaluation of Blended and Online Courses followed by a course description from Nancy Pogue.

Symposium Overview:

Quality Indicators for the Design and Evaluation of Blended and Online Courses
Presented by: Renee Welch and Nancy Pogue 

This presentation describes Quality Matters (QM), an "inter-institutional improvement model for assessing and assuring the quality of online courses." The QM review process and rubric is used as an assurance tool intended to promote continuous quality improvement. The QM review process is also focused on design, not delivery or academic content. It is not a faculty performance evaluation tool and should not to be confused with the assessment of student learning.

The QM rubric and other tools shared provide a structure by which faculty conduct peer reviews of online courses in order to assure that courses meet standards of best practices. Nancy Pogue's online course has been recognized as meeting FIPSE Quality Matters review standards.

In part II of the presentation, Nancy Pogue and Renee Welch will share their experiences with this process, while demonstrating how to utilize this toolset in a course.

The presentations provided by Professor Pogue and Welch are viewable on Centra Symposium. Click on the link above to hear and see the presentations both provided. If you would like to see only their presentations they are below:

Renee Welch presented Indicators of Quality in the Design and Evaluation of Blended and Online Courses

Nancy Pogue presented Evaluation of NUSC 530 online