Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses

05/19/2006

Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox

Clayton Wright of Grant MacEwan College has developed a guide for evaluating online course quality based on the national and international experiences of the staff in the Instructional Media and Design Department. The guide was developed to assist educators in evaluating the effectiveness of online courses as well as a resource for course developers.

The evaluation criteria identify specific course components, qualities, or procedures proven to be helpful to online learners and/or instructors. The list provides a series of key questions and indicators related to topic headings:

Accessibility
Organization
Language
Layout
Goals and Objectives
Course Content
Instructional or Learning Strategies and Opportunities for Practice and Transfer
Learning Resources
Evaluation
Overall

To read Wright’s guide, or to download the document in MS Word format, go to

www.imd.macewan.ca/imd/content.php?contentid=36

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