Course Quality
Course Quality Review | Best Practices & Policy | Professional development
The Learning Design team works hard to ensure that your students' learning and your teaching experiences are both exemplary. To that end, the team reviews its work periodically with a robust internal Course Quality Rubric. Results help inform the team's ongoing design and development practices.
The rubric itself is regularly updated to account for evolving best practices as well as regulatory changes in the higher education environment or within the university. This means that the design and development practices in the core domains of instruction reflect the very best and latest in learning design and policy. Some of the specific areas include, but are not limited to:
- accessibility
- adult learning
- artificial intelligence
- DEIB
- higher education policy
- learning taxonomies
- learning technologies
- student privacy
- universal design for learning
Finally, all members of the Learning Design team are well-versed in the literature on teaching and learning. Several team members are former faculty, teachers, and school administrators, and the team has wide learning design experience from within both public and private sectors. All actively engage in professional development, participating in and presenting at internal professional development events and external conferences such as those organized by UPCEA and EDUCAUSE.