Educational Technology

August 14, 2017

Growing trend: A new way of looking at courses gains traction

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

BY GIL GRUBER, eCampus News

The decentralized comprehensive liberal arts and sciences research university struggled to find a “perfect” solution that would help overcome all of the challenges being faced by its different schools. Within each unit, there are administrators who organize and run the course evaluation process. They manage faculty, students and deans. They specify which questions should be asked, what courses are evaluated and when these evaluations take place – total autonomy for each individual unit. The role of the central Institutional Research and Assessment department is to be the first line of support for the units and to manage the process during implementation. The switch was a huge undertaking as UNC identified internal data issues and spent valuable time cleansing their data before shifting to the new solution. The decentralized implementation across the campus was well accepted. UNC attributes the success of their implementation to three main factors.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/curriculum/trend-courses-gains-traction/

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