My contribution today is on the quality initiatives website of the Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC).
1. Here are some highlights of their website:
• This Community College uses two LMSs - Blackboard and Moodle.
• They provide training in both LMSs to faculty staff every month.
• Online tutorials are provided for both LMSs.
• They use the SafeAssign software in the Blackboard System to check for plagiarism.
• They encourage their staff members to contribute articles, news, links and resources to this website.
2. Of particular interest to me are their quality initiatives:
• Quality Rubric
• Quality Process
• Quality Seal
• Quality Showcase
• Quality Request
3. They have implemented a Quality Course Review (QCR) process utilizing the 2005 Quality Matters® rubric. The rubric provides a guide to key common elements which should be contained in every fully online course. At the same time, it allows flexibility of design for each faculty member to deliver unique educational content.
4. The Quality Course Review (QCR) Process
The QCR process is a voluntary programme. In this programme, the Instructional Development team provides feedback and support to instructors to improve course design. They have a rather rigorous process for their Quality Process.
5. Quality Seal
Faculty who have successfully completed the Quality Course Review (QCR) process and met the required elements of the rubric, may place the Quality Seal graphic image within their eLearning course.
6. Quality Showcase
They have this column where they feature contributions from faculty staff members. The other interesting thing is that they have a schedule to review the online courses that the instructors have designed and developed.
7. Only those courses that meet the quality criteria and attain the passing score are allowed to display the quality seal.
8. Finally, there is this last part in which the instructor can request for a quality review for his particular course.
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That's it for today. I hope it has been useful to people who are using and implementing e-learning.
Regards
Kin Chew
