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Insuring Academic Integrity of Course Development and Delivery: Protecting the Future of Online Learning
Presenters: Members of the CCC Academic Senate Technology Commitee and friends!
description | ideas for discussion | resource material
Description: This session was held to brainstorm ideas for a possible senate position paper about what are the best practices in online courses. Participants will be presented with a description of issues that have surfaced regarding maintaining quality instruction and learning in online courses. Recent skepticism has developed among some of our transfer institutions regarding the integrity of CCC online courses. In an effort to strengthen the integrity of online education in our own system, this session was planned as a precursor to a strong position paper recommending techniques and methodologies that insure the quality of our online programs.
1. We should solidify what we think about redesigning for the online environment vs. capturing what we do exactly from the on ground classroom setting.
2. Differences between modular course content vs. unique course content (like the difference between modules that are created by a group of faculty members or even just one, but facilitated by many as the university of Phoenix module vs. what we do as independent faculty developers)
3. What we know:
a. That students come usually from our district in the first place.
b. That convenience is the prime motivator for taking online courses, NOT necessarily self motivated learning.
c. Our own identity as teachers when it comes to quality.
More information about this topic will be added to this page after the session on Friday.
As Distance Education Comes
of Age
Sarah Carr, The Chronicle
of Higher Education, 2000
http://multimedia.msjc.edu/pjames/carr.htm
The following articles and many more great informational papers can be found at: The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.htm
- Reliability and Validity
of a Student Scale for Assessing the Quality of Internet-Based Distance
Learning Evaluation Vol III Fall 2003
Craig L. Scanlan, EdD, RRT, FAARC*
Professor and Director
MS and PhD in Health Sciences Programs
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
School of Health Related Professions
- Learning from Reflections
- Issues in Building Quality Online Courses
Quality Vol III Fall 2003
Patricia Deubel, Ph.D.
Nova Southeastern University
- Toward and Effective Quality
Assurance Model of Web-Based Learning: The Perspective of Academic Staff
Volume V, Number II, Summer 2002
Davey Yeung
Lecturer in Business and Information Technology
The Open University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Doctor of Business Administration candidate
The University of South Australia
- Interesting
studies, not available online:
Success in cyberspace: Student Retention in Online Courses
Journal of Applied Research in the Community College
Volume 10, No. 2, Spring 2003
Moore, Bartkovich, Fezner, and Ison; Monroe Community College
- From the same issue of JARCC:
Studying Distance Education at Community Colleges
Beatty-Guenter
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