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Quality Matters Training for Faculty at RPCC

Improve online teaching at River Parishes Community College through Quality Matters training. Goals include faculty workshops and course reviews for certification. Ongoing initiative to enhance online pedagogy and reduce costs with textbook-free by 2023.

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Quality Matters Training for Faculty at RPCC

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  1. Quality Matters Training for Faculty at RPCC River Parishes Community College

  2. Fall 2015-Spring 2017: Faculty at RPCC wishing to teach online completed various Quality Matters courses (Board of Regents Grant Contract Number LEQSF(2015-16)-ENH-PEN-13) • Spring 2017: LCTCS announced merger of RPCC and South Central Louisiana Technical College – Reserve campus. • Merger created a training divide, so this grant sought, in part, to offer training in online course design to new RPCC faculty members • Influx of online classes to be reviewed created a need for additional QM Peer Reviewers to serve on institutional service committee, Online Course Evaluation Committee • Some of our mature online courses were put through a full QM review to earn a Quality Matters Certification Mark Project Summary

  3. Our chancellor, Dr. Dale Doty, announced a “Textbook Free by 2023” initiative to reduce costs for students • Priority was given to our OER online courses for full QM review OER

  4. Goal 1: Continue training for new online faculty at RPCC in the best practices of online pedagogy using QM Professional Development workshops • Goal 2: Expand the number of certified Peer Reviewers who serve on the Online Course Evaluation Committee • Goal 3: Complete Subscriber-Managed QM Reviews for online courses to receive the QM Certification Mark. Priority given to OER online courses Goals

  5. Objectives for Goal 1: At least 10, but no more than 40of RPCC’s new faculty members from the Gonzales and Reserve campuses will be trained in the QM Designing Your Online Course workshop and/or the QM Improving Your Online Course workshop. • Currently, 23 faculty members have completed or are scheduled to complete these workshops • Objectives for Goal 2: At least 1, but no more than 5 of RPCC’s new faculty members from the Gonzales and Reserve campuses will be trained in a QM workshop to learn how to be reviewers of online courses. • 3 faculty members completed in the QM Peer Reviewer Workshop • Objectives for Goal 3: At least 1, but no more than 3 of RPCC’s current online courses will undergo a complete QM Subscriber-Managed Review to earn a QM Certification Mar. • 3 of RPCC’s OER online courses have undergone the full QM review. 2 courses passed review without revision, and the third is currently under revision. Objectives

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