Online Course Peer Review

Rubric standard III.2 reads: The grading policy is easy to locate and understand. I didn’t give this standard a great deal ofthought until I became an online student a few semesters ago. Asa student, the grading policy is the first thing I’msearching for in an online class — and I read it carefully and frequently. [...]

Online faculty volunteering to havea course reviewed, commonly request specific feedback on how they might make their courses more easily navigable or organized. Let’s face it, putting the entire content of a course into an emptyD2L content feature is a huge undertaking. The end result may seem intuitive to the course creator, but mayappearsomewhat confusing [...]

At a recent peer review team meeting, a reviewer asked why we generally review online courses that are currently active with students. Wouldn’t it be better to review courses that have already ended so that we could seethem in theirentirety? A good question!
We don’t always review “live” courses, but I would say that the majority [...]

One of LSC’s peer review goalsfor the year is totest out makingthe process inter-institutional in nature. This will likely mean putting together peer review teams made up of individuals from variousMnSCU schools. I’ve had email communication with a couple of individuals from other MnSCU insitutions who are interested in joining this effort but I would [...]

The second annual Online Faculty Peer Review Workshop is scheduled for May 24-25, 2007 at the Inn on Lake Superior in Duluth, MN. This workshop is intended for individuals who did not attend last year’s workshop, as the majority of the material covered will be the same. Who should attend? Ideally, groups of 3-5 online [...]