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New Quality Matters (QM) Peer Reviewer – Kourtney Vaillancourt!

Congrats to our most recently certified Quality Matters (QM) Peer Reviewer Kourtney Vaillancourt, from the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. She joins the ranks with Stephen Anderson (HSS), Susan Wilson (HSS), Teresa Westbrock (Library) and Betsy Stringam (ACES) and Krista Kozel (DACC).

Posted on 2013-05-08 18:46:00 | Category: Quality Matter

NMSU's first Quality Matters course

Congratulations to Sandra Johnson, instructor of Tools and Techniques for Online Teaching (CEL 580) and program coordinator of NMSU’s Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP), for having the first NMSU course to successfully pass a Quality Matters (QM) Course Review.

QM is a program with the mission of promoting and improving the quality of online education through:

  1. Development of research-supported, best practice-based quality standards and appropriate evaluation tools and procedures.
  2. Recognition as experts in online education quality assurance and evaluation.
  3. Fostering institutional acceptance and integration of QM standards and processes into organizational improvement efforts focused on improving the quality of online education.
  4. Provision of faculty development training in the use of QM rubric(s) and other quality practices to improve the quality of online/hybrid courses.
  5. Provision of quality assurance through the recognition of quality in online education.

For more information on OCIP or how your course can be reviewed by Quality Matters, visit us here: http://ocip.nmsu.edu/

Posted on 2013-04-12 19:00:24 | Category: Quality Matter

Online Course Improvement Program

The Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP) is professional development for NMSU faculty focusing on improving the quality of online teaching and learning. It expands on services currently available through the  Teaching Academy and Instructional Innovation and Quality.

Services provided by OCIP

OCIP provides NMSU faculty with the following professional development services:

Goals

The goals of OCIP are:

  1. Assist faculty in enhanced web course design and delivery while reducing student textbook costs.
  2. Provide faculty instructional design services with a framework that supports peer interaction and encourages best practices for online learning.
  3. Facilitate participation in national digital content consortiums and relevant communities.
  4. Create and support a culture of quality for online courses taught at NMSU.
  5. Develop a scalable, customized professional development model.
Funded in partnership with the Associated Students of New Mexico State University.

Funded in partnership with the Associated Students of New Mexico State University.

The following documents provide data on the events, attendance, faculty participation, and additional information on the overall impact of the larger OCIP program and 1Y+, which is a targeted professional development program. Both quantitative and qualitative data inform the findings.