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Promoting Continuous Quality Improvement in Online Teaching: The META Model
Dittmar, Eileen; McCracken, Holly
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, v16 n2 p163-175 Mar 2012
Experienced e-learning faculty members share strategies for implementing a comprehensive postsecondary faculty development program essential to continuous improvement of instructional skills. The high-impact META Model (centered around Mentoring, Engagement, Technology, and Assessment) promotes information sharing and content creation, and fosters collaboration among a fifty-member faculty team that is geographically dispersed and teaching one hundred percent online. Among its goals are to increase student satisfaction, promote instructional quality and continuous improvement, and motivate faculty. Model components include customized individual mentoring, an emphasis on continuous professional engagement and development, the integration of technologies to reinforce ongoing communication and interaction, and ongoing assessment measures using self, peer, and student evaluations to guide the development of exemplary practices. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Mentors, Student Evaluation, Total Quality Management, Online Courses, Faculty Development, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Educational Quality, Models, Change Strategies, Educational Strategies, Program Implementation, Teaching Skills, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement, Technology Integration, Learner Engagement, Instructional Development, Educational Technology
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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