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  #1 blendeddesign on 15 May 14

   

  Written Reaction to Week 5
  At Broward College, we have adopted Quality Matters (QM) as the gold standard for our online courses. I don't believe that blended courses can be reviewed and approved by QM at this point. This program uses a rigorous reviewing process, a review committee, and a rubric. I find that working with blended courses as an Instructional Technologist is very difficult because there are components that are handled by the departments themselves and interactions that occur in the classroom that are not accessible to us in Instructional Technology. Similarly, it would be difficult to assess the quality of a blended course for the same reasons. There is also a distributed responsibility for blended courses between the departments and Instructional Technology that can be frustrating and result in a decrease in productivity. I would fall into both the neophyte and neonate portion of blended instructors/designers/technologists, but as a population can have a disproportionately large number of infants as compared to the elderly, the population structure can indicate something about the population itself. There are many of us being born. As an interesting phenomenon and singularity, responsibility of ensuring the delivery and effectiveness of blended courses ultimately falls on the instructor and the departments.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Written Reaction to Week 5 <br /> At Broward College, we have adopted Quality Matters (QM) as the gold standard for our online courses. I don't believe that blended courses can be reviewed and approved by QM at this point. This program uses a rigorous reviewing process, a review committee, and a rubric. I find that working with blended courses as an Instructional Technologist is very difficult because there are components that are handled by the departments themselves and interactions that occur in the classroom that are not accessible to us in Instructional Technology. Similarly, it would be difficult to assess the quality of a blended course for the same reasons. There is also a distributed responsibility for blended courses between the departments and Instructional Technology that can be frustrating and result in a decrease in productivity. I would fall into both the neophyte and neonate portion of blended instructors/designers/technologists, but as a population can have a disproportionately large number of infants as compared to the elderly, the population structure can indicate something about the population itself. There are many of us being born. As an interesting phenomenon and singularity, responsibility of ensuring the delivery and effectiveness of blended courses ultimately falls on the instructor and the departments.</div>

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