Title: Quality Matters: InterInstitutional Quality Assurance in Online Learning
1Quality Matters Inter-Institutional Quality
Assurance in Online Learning
- A Grant Initiative of MarylandOnline
- Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. Education Fund for
the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
(FIPSE)
NUTN Panel Presentation June 1, 2006
2Quality Matters Inter-Institutional Quality
Assurance in Online Learning
3Scope of QM Project (June 2006)
- gt130 institutions in 27 states involved
- 111 Courses Reviewed from 28 HEIs
- 18 in MD
- 10 outside of MD
- 570 Peer Reviewers trained 128 HEIs/orgs.
- 40 QM Trainers from 27 HEIs
- 12 research projects to assess impact
4QM Peer Review Process as an Input
- Purpose quality improvement, not judgment
- Focus course design
- QM rubric is key element of process
- QM rubric is being adapted in variety of ways
- Course review, design, development
- Faculty training and development
- Quality benchmarking (institutionally
identifying areas of needed improvement) - Strategic planning tool
- Awareness/interest/support raising)
- QM process is more important than the rubric
- Peer review faculty-centered process
5Quality Matters Course Peer Review Process
Faculty Course Developers
National Standards Research Literature
Course
Rubric
Faculty Reviewers
Training
Peer Course Review
Feedback
Instructional Designers
6The Importance of a Faculty-Centered Process
- PRT decisionmaking is more important than more
detailed idiotproof rubric - Faculty (PRT, instructors, instructional
designers) see this as excellent faculty
development opportunity - PRTs firm and fair
- Reduces potential for abuse
7QM Research Projects Measuring the Impact of
Inputs
- Student Impact
- Applying rubric elements to hybrids (AACC)
- Impact on student learning outcomes (SUNY-Canton)
- Action research redesign (Frederick CC)
- Design issues student achievement (CSM)
- Learning activities course completion (NVCC)
- Effect of course review on student evals (PGCC)
- Other research projects
- QM Model adoption (MN Online)
- Reliability studies (MOL)
- Faculty survey (UMUC)
- VENDRIC (Harford CC/PGCC)
8Other Examples of QA Efforts
- Michigan Community College Virtual Learning
Collaboratives Online Course Development
Guidelines and Rubric - CSU-Chicos Committee for Evaluation of Exemplary
Online Courses, Rubric for Online Instruction
(ROI) - The Monterey Institute for Technology and
Education Online Course Evaluation Project - SUNY Learning Network
- eArmyU
9Contact Information
- Presenter/QM Project Evaluator
- John Sener -- jsener_at_sloan-c.org
- QM Project Coordinator
- Kay Kane kkane_at_pgcc.edu
- QM Project Co-DirectorsChris Sax
csax_at_umuc.eduMary Wells mwells_at_pgcc.edu