Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Review:
This assignment calls on you to complete a thorough review of an online course. It will provide you with a way to see the theory we read about in action in a real course. It will also help figure out what kinds of approaches and activities work best in online classes as you consider your own course development later in the semester.
The Client Success team at Blackboard says of the review experience, "the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program aims to help faculty use e-Learning technology more effectively by identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses. Using a rubric, instructors and course designers are able to evaluate how well their own course conforms to best practices for Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support."
Instructions:
Thank you again for participating in the review process for the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program, part of the Blackboard Catalyst Awards Program. We very much appreciate your willingness to give of your time and expertise in helping us identify examples of best practices in online course development and delivery. Please contact us if any of the courses you are assigned (see below) will be difficult or impossible for you to review.
Some important details:
Please complete and return your reviews by February 25, 2011.
Here are the courses for you to review(Course author – Course Title):
Linardopoulos-Communication for Professionals
Process:
- Please log into Blackboard Connections. Once logged in, go to our group "2011 Exemplary Course Program" found under Community Groups/By Topic. See detailed instructions below if you are not familiar with Connections.
- Read the Reviewer instructions and information detailed under the section of the group labeled "Ready to Review?".
- Download the "Reviewer Form" also available in the 2010 Exemplary Course Program group on Bb Connections.
- Download the "Submission Form" that corresponds to the course (above) to which you have been assigned as a reviewer. You can find the course information under "2011 ECP Submissions for Review" on Bb Connections. If you can not see this area please contact us immediately at ecp@blackboard.com.
- If you choose, you may begin this process by reviewing the archived Online Training Session, but this is not mandatory. If you don't watch the video session, please be sure to read over the review form before beginning.
- Review the assigned course listed above using the rubric, and please be sure to provide comments for each section as receiving expert feedback is one of the major motivations for our nominees.
- Once you have finished reviewing, please post the completed evaluation rubric to our Blackboard discussion board under the thread "Blackboard Exemplary Course Review".
Detailed Instructions for Creating an Account and Logging into Bb Connections:
- Go to http://connections.blackboard.com
- You can sign in using the Behind the Blackboard login id (jasheppa@nmsu.edu) and password (onlinepedagogy).
- Once you are logged in, using the menu items at the top of the page, navigate to "Community Groups by Topic." Click on the group called "2011 Exemplary Course Program."
- You will see a panel on the group main page called "2011 ECP Submissions for Review." You can then search for the course we will be reviewing: PRST_501_Communication for Professionals by Nikolaos Linardopoulos. You can read the instructor's self-assessment in the Word file linked from finding this course listing.
- You can access the actual course for the Blackboard review with the following:
URL: http://drexel.blackboard.com
Username: BECP
Password: blackboard
special instructions: case sensitive
If you have any questions, please contact the ECP team (ecp@blackboard.com). Thanks again for your participation, and happy reviewing!
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