Event Title: Quality Indicators for the Design and Evaluation of Blended and Online Courses
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2006
Time:
2 -4 p.m.
Location:
Student Center East,
Cardinal Room 329
750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
Symposium Overview Part I of 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.
Other features and benefits of this tool for faculty, institutions and ultimately students include:
Providing instructional support and peer feedback to faculty on the strengths of their courses and assisting them in making modifications and improvements to enhance their courses;
Identifying best practices in designing and assessing the quality of online course components;
Assisting institutions in improving the accountability of their blended and online courses.
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.
About the Presenters Nancy J. Pogue, PhD
Nancy J. Pogue, PhD is a Nurse Clinician in the Pulmonary Department for the Carle Clinic Association in Urbana, Illinois. Dr. Pogue has been teaching at the University of Illinois since the early nineties and has been responsible for the online graduate physiology program at the University of Illinois since its inception in 2001. In the spring of 2006, Dr. Pogue was awarded for her work on the online physiology graduate Program by Quality Matters
Renee Welch
Renee Welch is an Assistant Director for Instructional Design at External Education. She is responsible for support and the development of faculty and adjunct instructors who are redesigning and creating blended and online university courses, as well as professional education programs. Renee is also an online instructor. She holds a doctorate of philosophy degree in Educational Policy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a certified Master Online Instructor.
Contact For further details regarding this event, please contact External Education at (312) 355-0423 or by e-mail at exedworkshops@uic.edu.
Related Information
Faculty who would like curriculum support in developing an online or blended course can contact Karin Riggs in External Education. Using a team approach, External Education will partner with UIC's Instructional Technology Lab to identify the best solutions for developing a new online course or taking an existing course and developing an online section.
