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 class discusson board.
- An invitation forstudents to email and/or page the instructor with individual concerns related to the class.
- Optional “electronic office hours” provided in the chat room.
- Posted turn-around time for responses to email/pages.
On a side-note, three peer reviews are currently underway this semester with a handful more in the works. Over 30 different LSC online instructors have had a course reviewed since the summer of 2005! If you would like to get involved either by havinga course reviewed or by becoming a reviewer, please let me know at s.brashaw@lsc.edu.
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under Peer Review.
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