Improving Your Online Course

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Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) is an 8-hour workshop that explores the Quality Matter (QM) Rubric and provides a framework for improving the quality of online courses. The IYOC workshop is offered through the CSU Chancellor's Office of Online Course Services but is now also offered by CSULB QM-certified facilitators. 

In this 2-day intensive workshop, IYOC participants will use the Specific Review Standards of the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. Having a pre-developed online course is required to participate in the activities. 

QM-Certified Course Facilitators

Afifa Alawi
Instructional Designer
Academic Technology Service, CSULB
afifa.alawi@csulb.edu

Sabrina Dean
Instructional Designer
Academic Technology Service, CSULB
sabrina.dean@csulb.edu

  • Open to faculty only; Graduate Teaching Assistants are not eligible
  • Faculty participants must have a previously developed online course to improve using the QM standards.
  • Participants will need 4 hours each day to achieve the learning objectives. Each day runs from 9:30am to 1:30pm; you are expected to attend both days in full.
  • Please bring a laptop to use during the program.

  • Recognize the foundational concepts of Quality Matters.
  • Apply the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric to your own online course.
  • Describe the alignment of at least one module/unit in your online course.
  • Prioritize improvements to your online course.

This program has firm due dates and will be noted within the course along with a schedule.  

To receive the stipend:

  1. Attend the workshop in its entirety (attendance on both days is required) 
  2. Complete all in-workshop activities and materials including:
    1. QM Participant Confidentiality and Limited License Agreement.
    2. Evaluation Survey.

*Please note: If any assignments are not completed or submitted on time you will not be marked "complete."