Our institution is a large, multi-campus college with 5-years experience implementing QM, many QM certified courses, and a template-based process for developing credit courses that meet QM standards. Now, we are facing the challenge of implementing some of the most recent trends in American distance education such as MOOCs and Competency-based Education. Can the QM Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) Rubric be used to guide the design and development of a non-credit MOOC developmental course? Can some of QM's newer tools help guide us through this process?
The presenters will share their experience and findings from designing and developing a non-credit MOOC developmental course with Canvas as LMS and open enrollment capabilities. The purpose of the MOOC course is to help students, mostly high school graduates, better prepare for P.E.R.T. test in Math, Reading, and Writing. P.E.R.T. stands for the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test, Florida's customized common placement test.
Although the presenter will share all aspects of this new MOOC initiative including background and scope of the project, Canvas as development and delivery platform, training for faculty, staff, and administration, the design and development process, scheduling and roll-out, course delivery, and student completion rates, one of the main focuses is how the QM CPE Rubric has been helpful in designing and developing a non-credit MOOC developmental course.
