Online Learning and Quality Assurance Export

@article{citeulike:3735985, abstract = {More and more we are seeing the online medium being used to deliver teacher training, and the need for effective evaluation strategies for these programs is crucial. This study investigated the impact of instituting a well-structured quality-assurance process for monitoring a large-scale, statewide online professional development model: Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD). FOR-PD is Florida's first large-scale online reading professional development project, and has served 37,000 educators since 2003. Findings from the implementation of this situated model suggest that, although implementing an effective system of quality assurance checks (QACs) in an online professional development program can be expensive and time consuming, it can be well worth the effort. Not only can QACs help to reaffirm project goals and keep major roles and responsibilities intact, they also provide a mechanism for measuring and communicating student progress on a broad-to-narrow scale. Other benefits include improved online teaching methods and learning; a significant increase in course-completion rates; and better communications among and between the project's staff, facilitators, and students.}, address = {Chesapeake, VA}, author = {Coe, Vicky Z. and Swan, Bonnie and Ireland, Janine}, citeulike-article-id = {3735985}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://go.editlib.org/p/25228}, issn = {1537-2456}, journal = {International Journal on E-Learning}, keywords = {online, pd}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {127--146}, posted-at = {2008-12-02 15:52:27}, priority = {2}, publisher = {AACE}, title = {Online Learning and Quality Assurance}, url = {http://go.editlib.org/p/25228}, volume = {8}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3735985 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3735985 N2 - More and more we are seeing the online medium being used to deliver teacher training, and the need for effective evaluation strategies for these programs is crucial. This study investigated the impact of instituting a well-structured quality-assurance process for monitoring a large-scale, statewide online professional development model: Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD). FOR-PD is Florida’s first large-scale online reading professional development project, and has served 37,000 educators since 2003. Findings from the implementation of this situated model suggest that, although implementing an effective system of quality assurance checks (QACs) in an online professional development program can be expensive and time consuming, it can be well worth the effort. Not only can QACs help to reaffirm project goals and keep major roles and responsibilities intact, they also provide a mechanism for measuring and communicating student progress on a broad-to-narrow scale. Other benefits include improved online teaching methods and learning; a significant increase in course-completion rates; and better communications among and between the project’s staff, facilitators, and students. IS - 1 JF - International Journal on E-Learning SN - 1537-2456 AD - Chesapeake, VA EP - 146 TI - Online Learning and Quality Assurance PB - AACE VL - 8 SP - 127 KW - online KW - pd AU - Coe, Vicky AU - Swan, Bonnie AU - Ireland, Janine PY - 2009/January// UR - http://go.editlib.org/p/25228 ER -