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Refresh, Revise and Comply – A New Approach to Course Quality
Donna Simiele| eLearning Technology Support Coordinator [email protected] –Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NYwww.niagaracc.suny.edu
About ME
eLearning Technology Support Coordinator/Instructional Designer for 3 years
Teaching undergraduate on campus and online courses for 14 years
Quality Matters / OSCQR Reviewer Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching
Excellence (COTE) Expert Instructional Designer Fellow
ncccelearning.com
About SUNY & NCCC
• 64 Campuses • 459,550 students• University Centers• University
Colleges• Technology
Colleges• Community
Colleges
Niagara Falls New York
About eLearning@NCCC
NCCC has been online for 16 years: 8 online programs, 2 online
certifications, 180 online &
blended courses/semester.
Open SUNY (Formally SLN)Open SUNY is a SUNY-wide collaboration that opens the door to world-class online-enabled learning opportunities. Open SUNY is not a new degree program or a new school; it’s a seamless way for you to access the courses, degrees, professors, and rich academics of all 64 SUNY campuses flexibly—wherever and whenever you want. For the first time, SUNY is delivering its renowned high-quality education with an unprecedented breadth of tools, services, and supports designed to help you be successful. With Open SUNY, you can look forward to:
Flexibility
Support
Experience
Simplicity
Excellence Access
COTEOpen SUNY - Center for Online
Teaching Excellence
SUNY has launched a new center that celebrates, connects, and grows effective online education practitioners across the SUNY system while also furthering our knowledge of the most effective teaching and learning practices in online education.
Questions about COTE can be sent to [email protected]
Challenges with Student Success
Risk Factors for online success
Time of registration Poor advising Age Engagement and Course
Design Development Needs Gender Technical Factors/Business
Processes First-time e-Learning student Previous College Success- GPA Learning Styles
SUNY Directors of Distance Learning Environments
Student Success Approved Initiatives
1. New Quality Review Project Using OSCQR
2. eLearning Student Support Specialist3. Creation of eLearning student success
orientation (Blackboard Course) 4. LMS and technology workshops for
students5. IITG Grant – Building Accessible Content
in online courses using Universal Design methods
Moved from Quality Matters to OSCQR
Building OSCQR
OSCQR
Chico Rubric
SLN Best Practices
SUNY Office of General Counsel
Quality Matters
iNACOL
BlackboardCommunity of Inquiry
Seven Principles for Good Practice
The Adult Learner
Bloom’s Taxonomy
How People Learn
Open SUNY COTE
NCCC Quality Review Project
About the NCCC Quality Review Project The NCCC Quality Review process is a faculty-driven, collegial
course design review process. The rubric does not evaluate the faculty member or the faculty member’s content expertise.
The review makes use of the Open SUNY COTE Quality Review Rubric known as “OSCQR.”
This project will help NCCC maintain and enhance the quality of its online courses through a process of continuous improvement.
This review process is not a part of NCCC’s faculty evaluation process. It evaluates the online course itself. The reviewers evaluate the course before it goes live so that the focus is on the course design, not the faculty member or how the course is run.
The review process is completely voluntary.
OSCQR Resources
OSCQR
NCCC (Modified) Version of OSCQR
Video about OSCQR
Meet the OSCQR Rubric (Alexandra Pi
ckett)
Additional Checks Needed Accessibility Issues
Open SUNY OSCQR included an Accessibility Component
NCCC Required Materials Course Interaction
Moving Towards Compliance
Received a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) With Grant Funding:
▪ Built a compliance checklist (based on Middle States, Higher Education Opportunity Act, and OSCQR Accessibility standards)
▪ Checked online courses for compliance issues▪ Sent findings to faculty ▪ Provided professional development sessions
based on findings
Elements Checked Required:
Course Interaction▪ Student-to-Student, Faculty-to-Student, & Student-to-Faculty
NCCC Disability Disclosure NCCC Academic Integrity Policy
Content Accessibility: Documents (Word, Blackboard, & PDF) Tables PowerPoints Non-Text Elements (images, tables, charts, etc.) Videos
SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG)
Checked66 Courses 52 Faculty3 ReviewersApprox. 400 hours
FINDINGS
Types of Content Used
Docum
ents
Power
Points
Table
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Non-T
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Videos
3rd P
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Problems Found Documents
Font type, font size, colors Blackboard did not have a print function Documents were only offered in Word not PDF
PDF Some PDF files were hand written and scanned
Tables Blackboard does not have the ability to make
tables accessible – All docs with tables needed to be created in Word
Hyperlinks Showed URL not text, Alt Text was not provided
Problems FoundCont. PowerPoint
If narrated, they did not contain captions/transcripts
Layouts were often not used Images
Did not contain Alt Text Videos
Were not CC or transcribed
Professional Development for Compliance
Provided Individual Results to Each Faculty
One-on-One Sessions 30 Minute Mentor Monday’s
(Recorded) Open Compliance Sessions Accessibility Resources Progress Survey Sent (End of the Fall
semester)
Sessions Offered
13 Open Sessions 12 One-on-One Meetings6 30 Minute Mentor Sessions
(Recorded)
Compliance Training & Resources
Accessibility Training – Atomic Learning Videos (Total Watching Time 20 min.)
Self Evaluation (20 question Quiz)
Accessibility Resources Student Testimonials Tools and Techniques for
Improving Course Accessibility (Magna Commons)
Donna SimieleeLearning Technology Support [email protected]
Project Materials:
Resources: NCCC eLearning Faculty Support Center (Blog) NCCC (Modified) OSCQR Compliance Checklist, Form, and Checklist
with Resources/Descriptions
SUNY Resources: Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE)
Open SUNY COTE Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) Questions about OSCQR