Online Education and Assessment Committee: Course Design Research
DSC Course Redesign Project
The Course Redesign Project at Dalton State was initiated by our Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Sandra Stone and is a result of the greater ongoing American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU) Red Balloon Project on Re-Imagining Undergraduate Education. Here at DSC the initiative is supported in part by Foundation funds and serves to achieve Goal 5 Objective 1 of our Strategic Plan which focuses on enhancing “excellence in undergraduate education by improving teaching quality.” Over 60 faculty and staff members are participating in the project working to create implementation plans for redesigning their courses.
Course Design Research
- Adoptable eCore Course TemplatesAll eCore course templates are available for faculty members to adopt and use in their face-to-face or online courses. The LMS administrator on your campus can provide a copy of the templates.
- Blended Learning ToolkitThe Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open repository of information, resources, models, and research related to blended learning. Included in the Toolkit are strategies for blended course design and delivery, open educational resource blended course models in Composition and Algebra, assessment and data collection protocols, and “train-the-trainer” materials and workshops. Because the Toolkit is openly available through a Creative Commons license, any interested institution or faculty member may access and use the included resources.
- MerlotMERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
- Quality MattersQuality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process that is designed to certify the quality of online and blended courses.
- Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online CoursesArticle by Charles Graham, Kursat Cagiltay, Byung-Ro Lim, Joni Craner, and Thomas M. Duffy published in The Technology Source.