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Online Course Peer Review

Archive for January, 2007

Instructor Contact Info

Rubric standard V.5: Directions for contacting the instructor and student mentor (if utilized) are clear and specific.
Are directions for contacting the instructor found easily within the course? We may think that students will know to automatically check the syllabus for our contact information, but it’s never a bad idea to have it provided in [...]

Opportunities for Instructor/Learner Interaction

Rubric standard V.4 reads: The course design provides a variety of opportunities for interaction between instructor and learner.
Opportunities for interaction will vary with the discipline of the course, but students do need to feel that the instructor is close at hand and is, of course, approachable.
Examples that would meet this standard:

An instructor-facilitated question/answerforum on the [...]

Online Course Quality Checklist

Here it is — an abbreviated version of the peer review rubric in the form of a checklist. Let me know what you think!
Online Course Quality Checklist
The following checklist is a brief look at some of the standards found on the LSC online course peer review rubric. Use it as a guide while developing new [...]