Just a quick link to a collection of “standards” for determining whether your online courses are of sufficient quality or not. I wonder how my open courses would rate…
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To learn more about David Wiley, visit http://davidwiley.org/. David also leads the Access to Knowledge Initiative in Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education.
As a former Aggie, I’m surprised you didn’t list the Merrill 5 star rating. Three great collections though – thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting these. I’m familiar with QM and Monterey Institute’s but not NACOL.
The timing of your post has synchronicity for me; at UVU we have our own rubric that aims at measuring some aspects of quality and values heavily faculty-authored content, and John K. and I were just talking about revamping it this week. We had a conference call with Jean Runyon of QM today which left me reinvigorated to the ideal of developing useful and effective standards for evaluating quality e-learning.
Re. Darren’s comment: Merrill’s 5 Star Instruction web site.
Don’t forget the Sloan-C 5 Pillars:
http://www.sloan-c.org/5pillars