Eastern Regional Center
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NC-NET’s Eastern Regional Center, led by Martin Community College in Williamston, is responsible for the development of discipline-specific resources. The Center hosts numerous workshops throughout the year on both discipline-specific and instructional technology topics. |
Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses
A Workshop for Faculty
Every educator strives to produce a quality learning experience for their students. But how do you know if you’ve achieved your goal, particularly in the online learning environment? Quality is often “in the eye of the beholder” with faculty, learners and administrators many times evaluating it differently. The key to quality is in the design of the course. By designing quality in, the inadequacies often do not need to be evaluated out.
Dr. Rita-Marie Conrad, noted online educator and author, will conduct a one-day workshop that will include:
- Overview of evaluation guidelines such as the National Standards of Quality for Online Courses and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) Guiding Principles for Distance Learning.
- The instructional elements to focus on to promote the design and delivery of a quality online course
- Developing a quality checklist
- Planning and conducting a multiple perspective evaluation
Friday, February 6, 2009
Martin Community College, Building 1, Room 14
1161 Kehukee Park Road, Williamston, NC
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Lenoir Community College, Bullock Building, Room 150
231 Highway 58 South, Kinston, NC
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Both workshops are free but registration is required.
To register: E-mail pbroughton@martincc.edu or call (252) 792-1521
Download
the Workshop Flyer.
Self-paced online modules developed by the Eastern Center include:
- Developing Interactive Activities for Online Labs and Classes
- Early Childhood Education: Evaluating Student Fieldwork
- Early Childhood Education: No Child Left Behind
- Guerrilla Marketing Automotive Technology
- Interactive Activities for Online Teaching in Industrial Technology
- NATEF Certification and Re-Certification Requirements
- Online Resources for Industrial Technologies
All self-paced modules can be accessed through the NC-NET Blackboard server. Log in with the user name faculty and the password nc-net. Once connected, you can view the courses by topic or alphabetically by title.
The Eastern Regional Center also offers an Excellence in Teaching Resource Room to provide North Carolina community college faculty with books, magazines, videos, and technology resources related to promoting excellence on the personal level and college level to better students and the community college system.
Another resource provided by the Eastern Center is the Online Teaching Resource Center, developed by noted researcher Dr. Susan Colaric of East Carolina University.
For more information about the Eastern Regional Center, contact:
Phyllis Broughton
Dean, Academics & Student Services
Director, NC-NET Eastern Regional Center
Martin Community College
1161 Kehukee Park Road
Williamston, NC 27892
(252) 792-1521 x246
E-mail: pbroughton@martincc.edu