The 6th Annual Faculty Best Practices Showcase
Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning

Friday, March 18, 2005 at William Paterson University

Panel Discussion: Establishing Quality Standards for eLearning

Blake Haggerty, NJIT
Patricia Tamburelli CC Morris
Catherine Kelley FDU
Norah Kerr McCurry, Brookdale CC
Sandie Miller WPU
Ken Ronkowitz, NJIT

Establishing standards for online course design, and standards for online instructors:

1) What standards are in place now at your institution? (or, what types are you trying/hoping to implement)

2) Are they formal?

3) At what level are standards addressed - by dept, college, institutional?

4) What effect (if any) do national/international compliance standards such as SCORM, AICC, NSTISSI, et al have on course design?

5) Do you address standards through your CMS or LMS use?

6) Are there standards for how faculty are selected, trained and supported in eLearning?

7) Are there standard development timetables for online courses?

LINKS ON eLEARNING STANDARDS REFERENCED IN THE DISCUSSION

SCORM, Sharable Content Object Reference Model from Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), a collaborative effort between government, industry and academia to establish an interoperable distributed learning environment.

Free online course on understanding standards provided by ReadyGo LMS and a free online course on ADL SCORM

IMS Global Learning Consortium

CETIS  Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (UK)

SIF   School's Interoperability Framework Association (K-12)

Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, And Benchmarking: Comparing Two Frameworks For Managing Quality Processes In Open And Distance Learning - from the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning