Online Course Peer Review

The LSC Online Peer Review Program and CTL are co-hosting the following “Learn from Each Other” sessions:
Wednesday, March 19 from 12:00 to 1:00 Betsy Ingram-Diver will showcase one of her online courses. This is a great opportunity to see how a colleague teaches online and to ask questions! This session will be held [...]

The line-up of speakers and presentation topics at this years RSP/ITeach conference looks impressive. I’m especially eager to hear the keynote speakers, Mark Taylor and Betsy Barefoot (here’s one of Betsy’s presentations about “Rethinking the First Year College Experience” http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/presentation/Betsysplenary-Phoenix.ppt#264,10,A — good stuff!)
Our LSC team of peer review leaders will also speak at this year’s [...]

The rubric standard states: Netiquette guidelines for the course, including etiquette regarding discussions and email communications, are clearly stated.
Netiquette is, more or less, the use of appropriate communication online (network etiquette). This rubric standard is worth just one point, yet clearly communicating to students what is expected in terms of appropriate communication can result in [...]

At a presentation the peer review leaders were giving at LSC’s August 2007 duty day, one of the participants mentioned that seeing what others do in their online classrooms is extremely helpful for generating new online teaching ideas. We all agreed, of course! Taking it a step further, he suggested that we coordinate a series [...]

The semester has started and we’re off to the races! For me, this first week is a welcome break from the craziness of prepping for the semester. I like to have my classes all put together before opening day, and, well, procrastination meansmany late nights. So, this first week, I’m thoroughlyenjoying being able to kick [...]

LSC peer review rubric standard I.2 reads: Course layout, as designed by the instructor, is easy to navigate and understand. This 3-point item (an important one as all 3-point standards must be met in order for a course to meet overall expectations) assumes that the following are easy to locate, navigate and understand:

a course syllabus
a [...]

Four or five years ago, LSC faculty attended a duty day held at the DECC. The keynote speaker challenged us to work toward continuously improving our courses throughout the semester by asking students for their anonymousfeedback. I remember thinking “sure, great idea!”, but when it came right down to it, incorporating a “How’s Susan doing?” [...]

Rubric standard III.3 reads: Assessment and measurement strategies provide appropriate feedback to the learner.
Thinking back to my undergraduate years, I honestly don’t remember getting much instructor feedback on my coursework. Of course, I attended a fairly large state school and I oftentimes sat in packed lecture halls with hundreds of classmates. Still, in some of [...]

Rubric standard V.3 states: Clear standards are set for instructor response and availability (turnaround time for email, grades posted, etc.)
Studentswant clear information about how quickly grades will be posted after coursework has been submitted. Before I started taking classes online, I didn’t think much about this standard. I put a statement in my syllabus that [...]

I love online class discussions. When I first started teaching online, I think I might have tried to respond to just about every student post. I wanted studentsto know I was there and reading what they’d written. Of course, I quickly learned to stop being so annoying! Still, as I serve on peer review teams [...]