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 of thought until I became an online student a few semesters ago.  As a student, the grading policy is the first thing I’m searching for in an online class — and I read it carefully and frequently.  […]

Online faculty volunteering to have a 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 empty D2L content feature is a huge undertaking.  The end result may seem intuitive to the course creator, but may appear somewhat 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 see them in their entirety?  A good question!
We don’t always review “live” courses, but I would say that the majority […]

One of LSC’s peer review goals for the year is to test out making the process inter-institutional in nature.  This will likely mean putting together peer review teams made up of individuals from various MnSCU 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 […]