Are these guidelines appropriate for distance education courses?
In addition to the evaluation of learner’s learning, faculty should give consideration to evaluation of the course and related learning activities. Does the school have course evaluation or best practices guidelines? Are these guidelines appropriate for distance education courses? Many of these course evaluation forms link to faculty contracts and will not necessarily help improve the course. Does the faculty member use something like Quality Matters, which is a peer review process to certify the quality of online and blended courses?51 It might be helpful to use a guide like Quality Matters as the course is developed. There is no one best practice guide for distance education, but all guides consider these points as being critical to quality: