When Birmingham-Southern offered its first online courses in Summer 2017,

Instructional almost 80% of students said they would recommend the online courses at
Birmingham-Southern to other students. For continued success, faculty and

Technology staff need more training to deliver or participate in an online course. This
project will deliver training to faculty and students to ensure that faculty

AY18-19 design rigorous, engaging, and high-quality online courses and that students
are prepared to be successful in those courses.

PHASE I PHASE II PHASE III PHASE IV

Prepare faculty to Prepare students LMS and course Moodle resource

teach online for  online courses design training series portal supports 1st
through 6-12 week through BSC Online for faculty. (Level 1) Gen and incoming
course. (Level 2) Orientation. freshman. 
WHAT

Learn best practices Prepare students Prepare faculty to Increase student

for online learning, for success online effectively & success earlier
gain familiarity w/ w/ clear efficiently use the through consistent,
GOAL LMS to increase streamlined
technology tools, and expectations and
create 3 weeks of technology priming. student engagement support.  
100% online content. & learning outcomes.

DELIVERY Hybrid Model In-Person Online, in-person

In-Person by faculty request
& Online only

TIMELINE Feb 2019 April  2019  Fall 2019 Fall 2019

 BSC's Online Teaching & Learning Course will focus on the
Online Teaching practicle.  Faculty will immediately apply new knowledge to the
development of an upcoming course. A certificate of completion

& Learning will be awarded to recognize faculty who complete the course by

developing online content that merits the BSC Seal of Excellence.

Course The Quality Matters rubric for online courses will be used as the
standard for assessing quality. 

L.O.1 L.O.2 L.O.3 L.O.4

OUTCOME Produce a course Select a variety of Develop 3 units of  Express confidence in 
syllabus that meets at appropriate course aligned, online ability to effectively and
least 70% of Quality technology tools based instruction including efficiently use the
By the end of the Matters Standards 1 on instructional unit objectives, learning institution’s LMS to
course, faculty will be and 2. strategies and best activities, and facilitate quality
able to: online teaching assessment. learning  experiences.
practices.

ID/ Peer review of Pre and Post

ASSESSMENT syllabus using QM Seal of Excellence Seal of Excellence Assessment: Likert +
Review Review
Syllabus Checklist knowledge questions

Course Syllabus Alignment Map Alignment Map Assessment

DELIVERABLES QM 6 Self-Assessment 3 Course Units Results

BSC Syllabus Template Alignment Map Alignment Map

DEVELOPMENT QM Syllabus Checklist QM6 Self-Assessment  Excellence Rubric Pre/Post Test
Training Course Course Evaluation
Certificate/Badge LMS Tutorials/SCORM
Certification Map