2019 Annual Conference

CDLT PreConference Symposium: Emerging Issues in Distance Learning or Technology for Adult Learners

CDLT PreConference Only: Concurrent (20 to 45 minutes)

Conducting online course reviews is a challenging task. This session presents how a new Health Professions Education program approached the process of course reviews to ensure maximum buy in from instructors. The session will describe the process that was implemented and the maintenance strategies being explored by the program.

Instructional designers, online instructors, administrators would all benefit from attending this session and considering different ways of engaging online learners.

In this session, participants will:
* be introduced to an open source online course review process
* learn how to modify existing rubrics to best suit their needs
* learn how a new program implemented a course review process to ensure consistency and course quality
* consider how to launch a review process that will get maximum buy in from faculty

Reviewing online courses has become an integral part of the life cycle of online courses. Yet this process creates anxiety in many instructors. This anxiety is exacerbated when instructors feel that their quality of teaching is being judged. In public institutions, it is difficult to mandate course reviews.

The Health Professions Education program at the Uniformed Services University is a new program that has instituted a course review process that builds on existing resources and the experiences of other programs. Rather than reinvent the wheel, in this program, we took best practices from established online programs and tried to implement a course review process that is less stressful to instructors while simultaneously ensuring course quality for learners.

In this session I will share how we have designed our review process and the outcomes that we are seeing.

The session will begin with an introduction to the Health Professions Education program. I will then present the different course review strategies that we considered and the process that we finally implemented. I will discuss implementation strategies, what worked well and the challenges faced along the way. In the year 2019, there are a number of established and highly successful online programs that we can learn from. This session will present how a new program leveraged the experiences of established programs to create a new course review process.