Online/Blended Course Reviews
Overview
In recent years, more faculty have started putting course materials online
and moving some of their face-to-face activities to online environment. Creating
and using a course website requires not only technical skills but also a unique
set of pedagogical skills that facilitate learning. An Online/Blended Course
Review will help you identify the course elements and activities that most
benefit students in your particular course.
Process
The Online/Blended Course Review is a four-part process that includes the
following:
- Initial meeting
At the initial meeting, we will ask you to provide background information
by answering some questions about
the course, your students, and your teaching.
- Course Review
We will use the Quality
Online Course Initiative Rubric to review online courses. As some entries
of the rubric may not apply to all courses, the facilitator will focus
on the specific categories that are most important to your particular course.
- Feedback Phase
At our follow-up meeting, we will provide you with a written summary of
review and answer any questions you might have about it.
- Action Phase
Once you have received our feedback, we ask that you determine a “plan
of action” for putting our findings into action to enrich your teaching.
Policies
- VOLUNTARY
Only instructors can request a review.
- FORMATIVE
CTLT facilitators are not in the business of evaluating teaching. Facilitators
are only reviewing the organization and activities in the course website.
Once we have provided the course review to the instructor, only the
instructor decides how it will be used.
- CONFIDENTIAL
No information we gather as a result of the Online/Blended Course Review
process will be shared with anyone else at the university or beyond
without the instructor’s express consent. We will provide a follow-up
letter summarizing the results of the review, and instructors are welcome
to use the letter in any way it deems appropriate (as an addition to
their teaching portfolio, as part of their annual ASPT report, etc.)
We would be happy to send a copy of the letter to a dean, chair, mentor,
or DFSC, but only at the written request of the instructor.
- TIMELY
CTLT facilitators will work with interested faculty to determine appropriate
timing for consultation.
For more information or to schedule an online/blended course review, call
or e-mail Mayuko
Nakamura, CTLT Coordinator, 309-438-2628 or Jean-Marie
Taylor, CTLT Coordinator, 309-438-8931.
