Wiki Page, WCC DE Faculty Handbook: Best Practices

Wiki Page
2016-07-27T13:04:43-06:00

At Woodland Community College we will begin to use the Online Education Initiative's rubric to guide our course design (you can read more about the OEI later in this course). A great way to begin to design your course, or to improve an existing course, is to review the OEI Rubric and use it as a self-evalution tool. This is the rubric the Distance Education Committee is using to evaluate course shells, so this is the standard that is helping us improve our courses. If WCC chooses to participate in the OEI's course exchange, this rubric will be the standard we will be expected to meet. Updated OEI Rubric May 2015-1.pdf

You can read about additional "Best Practices" at

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.pdf

Ten Principles of Effective Online Teaching.pdf

BldgFromContentToCommunity.pdf

national-standards-for-quality-online-teaching-v2.pdf

national-standards-for-quality-online-courses-v2.pdf

So you find that you have created a textbook online course, but students still seem to struggle. What do you do next? There are some great resources out there on "humanizing" online learning. You can find materials and tools from this year's Online Teaching Conference on Humanizing Online Learning that you can use today in your own classes! Want to learn more? CSU Channel Islands and Michelle Pacansky-Brock offer a course on Humanizing Online Learning. This would be a great "next" class to take to further your online learning and a course that would count towards continued certification. Remember, your WCC online teaching certification must be updated every five years.