ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT

Office of Distance Education and Online Learning

Tuskegee University (TU) is committed to offering a high quality online education program that adheres to the standards set forth by SACSCOC, regarding electronically offered programs. To this end, TU has established the Office of Distance Education and Online Learning (ODEOL) to ensure that its online education program is delivered in a systematic and organized way. Moreover, coordination of online education is required to insure that the University continues to offer high quality education; provides resources and assistance for faculty; provides support services for online education students, maximizes the use of University’s resources, and ensures comprehensive, consistent, and coherent policies and procedures related to faculty and students!

Furthermore, the University recognizes that today’s students already enter the university with high expectations for the use of technology in their learning. The University also realizes that the rapid advancements in technology will continue to create new approaches for providing and delivering distance education. Consequently, the University is committed to ensuring that the programs and courses offered through this medium will be as academically rigorous as those courses that are offered on the campus. Both on-campus and online course and program offerings will result in creating deep and lasting learning in the students !!

The University recognizes that the new science of teaching and learning, using emerging technology modalities, brings new and different teaching and learning challenges. 

• Certificate of Online Teaching
•  Course Development & Design
• Peer Review - Quality Matters Peer Review
• Delivery
• Professional Development & Training

Course Development & Design

Peer Review-Quality Matters Peer Review of Online Courses

ODEOL utilizes the Quality Matters Rubric for all Tuskegee University online degree program courses. Quality Matters: Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric, Fifth Edition, 2014 which is comprised of a set of 8 general standards and 43 specific standards used to evaluate the design of online and blended courses. The Quality Matters Program  (www.qualitymatters.org) is a research-centered approach to quality assurance and continuous improvement for online learning. The primary components are a set of standards (or Rubric)  for the design of online courses and the online components of blended courses, a peer review process for applying these standards, and related professional development for faculty. The  Quality Matters Rubric, with versions for continuing and professional education, educational publishing, secondary education, and post-secondary education, is based on recognized best practices, built on the expertise of instructional designers and experienced online teachers, and supported by distance education literature and research. The goal of the program is to enable faculty to increase student engagement, learning, and satisfaction in online courses by implementing better course design.

For More Information Contact: Dr. Moses Ntam at mntam@tuskegee.edu.