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Peer Review
Process
Online and hybrid courses provide students with convenient
asynchronous access to learning experiences; these learning
experiences must provide the same quality as can be found in our
more traditional face-to-face settings. A course peer review process
has been established for online and hybrid courses to help assure a
consistent level of quality in course content delivery. The peer
review process is divided into two pieces: A technical review and a
peer content review. The technical review process is not intended to
evaluate course content. The peer content review is the ultimate
responsibility of the instructor and the division.
Course technical and peer content reviews are to be completed on all
new online and hybrid courses using the institution supported course
management system (Blackboard). Both reviews should be completed
prior to or within the first semester of offering the course;
reviews must be successfully completed in order for the course to be
offered a second time.
The
review process occurs in 3 levels. The first level begins with each
instructor completing a self-evaluation of her/his course using a
Rubric from Quality Matters.
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Once the instructor completes level one,
self-evaluation, the second level of review, the course
undergoes the technical review. Here the course will be assigned
to and reviewed by an Instructional Designer.
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Next, the course undergoes the third level of
review, peer content review. Here the instructor will have the
course reviewed by their department chair (or the program
director or another faculty member in the department per the
division
dean’s
approval).
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The course must receive full recommendation by
both the technical reviewer and the peer content reviewer as
meeting the Standards of Good Practice in order to be
taught/published or continue to be taught in an online/hybrid
format. It is expected that all courses developed with the
Standards of Good Practice in mind would receive full
recommendation by all reviewers. When the course is unanimously
recommended for online/hybrid publication and teaching
implementation, notification will be sent to the following:
Instructor and the division dean.
In
cases where peer reviewers believe a course does not yet meet the
Standards of Good Practice, specific areas needing improvement will
be identified. The instructor would then be expected to address
these concerns in order to teach or continue to teach this course in
an online/hybrid format. Instructors may discuss review findings
with the department chairman, dean, and/or instructional designer
gain greater clarify on needed modifications. |
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