Buy In
An effective, sustainable Peer Online Course Review process requires buy-in (i.e., support and participation) from many stakeholders across your campus, such as online faculty, Distance Education Coordinator, Academic Senate, chief instructional officer, academic deans, Canvas admin, instructional designers, etc. The first thing we recommend is to identify your local stakeholders.
As you identify your stakeholders, you'll want to leverage your campus strengths, consider your campus culture, and identify your college and faculty needs.
Here are some guiding questions to help you identify your stakeholders:
Identifying Stakeholders
- Who needs to be “at the table” as you design and develop your Local POCR process?
- Who needs to be an ongoing, active participant in your process once it has started?
- Who needs to know about your local process regardless of whether they are active members of the team?
- Who has knowledge or skills that may be important to developing your local POCR process?
- Who can serve as your Local POCR Lead to serve as the liaison between your local process and the support and resources available from CVC@ONE?
When reaching out to stakeholders to gain buy-in, be sure to include all areas that will impact - or be impacted by - your Local POCR process, including faculty, administrators, classified staff, and students.
Conducting Outreach
Once you have identified your stakeholders, you can begin building support for a Local POCR process in a number of different ways:
- Communicate with faculty about the CVC Exchange (located at cvc.edu) about how having an aligned (or "Quality Reviewed") course helps students find and enroll in their courses more quickly.
- Discuss ASCCC Resolution 09.03 (Fall 2018) with your local Academic Senate to learn about how faculty can benefit from those recommendations.
Discussing the Benefits
Student Success
Course design is the foundation of an effective online course. The design of a course communicates to students what is expected of them, how they will navigate the course, and how they will demonstrate their mastery. Effective course design ensures students’ learning experiences are transparent, eliminating the confusion and guesswork that can hinder student learning. Be sure that your stakeholders know how the CVC@ONE Peer Online Course Review (POCR) process has already impacted student success in aligned courses!
Collaboration
National and statewide research on online teaching effectiveness notes that the most effective online courses are built through collaboration between content experts, course designers, and support teams. POCR can provide opportunities for collaboration between faculty, administrators, staff and systemwide resources.
Enhanced Focus on Teaching
While we all may have excellent credentials in our subject areas, we may not have received preparation for teaching, much less course design and using technology effectively. Participation in POCR gives faculty an opportunity to focus on teaching, and provides a space for honing materials, activities, assessments, and feedback for students to enrich the teaching and learning experience.
