TCC Post 6: What we've learned about quality guidelines

Our experience has been that the development of quality guidelines both for course design and for course facilitation is a critical step for program success. The development of a set of written quality descriptors that most faculty, students, and administrators can agree upon is a challenging process, made more difficult by any expectations around evaluations and reward. However, that same process generates huge amounts of excitement around the courses and learning processes. Our courses are significantly better for having lived through the process once.