To help campuses ensure that their online courses are learner centered and well designed, a team of SUNY staff and campus stakeholders has designed the OSCQR rubric, a customizable and flexible tool for online course quality review.
The OSCQR rubric specifically targets online course design. The OSCQR rubric is unique and differs from other online course quality rubrics in several ways. It is not restricted to mature online courses. The rubric can be used formatively with new online faculty to help guide, inform, and influence the design of their new online courses, and, it is non-evaluative.
DCC has used the OSCQR rubric in the past as a voluntary process pre-pandemic, and in a modified form for the post-pandemic course review process. The rubric is a great way to self-evaluate your course for best practices in design, accessibility, and RSI.
For more information on the rubric, including examples, pedagogy and research, and testimonial videos, pelase check out the SUNY rubric site: https://oscqr.suny.edu/
If you are interested in the possibility of becoming a reviewer or having a review done for your course, please contact us at TLC@sunydutchess.edu