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Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology

Online/Blended Course Reviews

Overview

In recent years, more faculty have started putting course materials online and moving some of their face-to-face activities to online environment. Creating and using a course website requires not only technical skills but also a unique set of pedagogical skills that facilitate learning. An Online/Blended Course Review will help you identify the course elements and activities that most benefit students in your particular course.

Process

The Online/Blended Course Review is a four-part process that includes the following:

  1. Initial meeting
    At the initial meeting, we will ask you to provide background information by answering some questions about the course, your students, and your teaching.
  2. Course Review
    We will use the CTLT Online Course Assessment (rubric) to review online courses. As some entries of the rubric may not apply to all courses, the facilitator will focus on the specific categories that are most important to your particular course.
  3. Feedback Phase
    At our follow-up meeting, we will provide you with a written summary of review and answer any questions you might have about it.
  4. Action Phase
    Once you have received our feedback, we ask that you determine a “plan of action” for putting our findings into action to enrich your teaching.

Policies

  1. VOLUNTARY
    Only instructors can request a review.
  2. FORMATIVE
    CTLT facilitators are not in the business of evaluating teaching. Facilitators are only reviewing the organization and activities in the course website. Once we have provided the course review to the instructor, only the instructor decides how it will be used.
  3. CONFIDENTIAL
    No information we gather as a result of the Online/Blended Course Review process will be shared with anyone else at the university or beyond without the instructor’s express consent. We will provide a follow-up letter summarizing the results of the review, and instructors are welcome to use the letter in any way it deems appropriate (as an addition to their teaching portfolio, as part of their annual ASPT report, etc.) We would be happy to send a copy of the letter to a dean, chair, mentor, or DFSC, but only at the written request of the instructor.
  4. TIMELY
    CTLT facilitators will work with interested faculty to determine appropriate timing for consultation.

For more information or to schedule an online/blended course review, call or e-mail Mayuko Nakamura, CTLT Coordinator, 309-438-2628 or Jean-Marie Taylor, CTLT Coordinator, 309-438-8931.