TCC Post 1: It's all about the teaching .......

From the WCET's "Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate programs", value #1:

Education is best experienced within a community of learning where competent professionals are actively and cooperatively involved with creating, providing, and improving the instructional program.

Students have two distinct forms of interaction with faculty when participating in an online class. First, they meet the faculty through the content the faculty has provided. Second, they interact with the faculty where the faculty comes online (into the classroom space) to facilitate the course. Good practice then suggests that well-designed quality guidelines would address both these areas of contact - the online materials and the "classroom" interaction - and that those guidelines would also emphasize the professional development of faculty.

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