ION Faculty Trainers - Presentations
January 18, 2002

Methods in Use to Help Faculty Create Quality Online Courses

• Proposed new courses are accompanied by a detailed proposal
• A preliminary module for evaluation is created in advance of teaching the course.
• An issue - "No one tells me what to do in f2f, are you telling me now in online?"
• Offer surveys and evaluations of student satisfaction
• Monitor quality of course maintenance over time
• Create student focus groups
• Encourage faculty to call students early on in the semester
• Tools provided for faculty but not the pedagogy - quality is in the tools
• Step up follow-up procedures during first semester the course is taught

How to Ensure Quality

• Suggest that new instructors take an online course
• Have faculty examine quality peer courses
• Sit down with faculty and ask them to state their teaching strengths.
• Help them find a way to translate their strengths to their online courses.
• Sample online classes to look at
• Have them teach first f2f and use their web enhancements in the f2f course
• Set up peer networks with other faculty to get tips
• Brown bag lunches for invited faculty
• Focus on what faculty will get out of it
• Offer a course on teaching with technology using the actual technology they will be using