Online Courses

Abstract

Following the 2009 Accreditation process, Palomar College was advised to develop a means of validating the quality of its Distance Education program. The Senate Academic Technology Committee was charged with this task which resulted in the development of the checklist rating instrument presented below. A committee of dedicated instructors, some of whom teach online, identified the important elements of a high quality (Accomplished) online course. The process the committee took was the familiar one of reviewing the relevant literature, examining what other institutions had done in this regard (see reference section) and then developing our own checklist document based partly upon the best practices of other institutions.