Brent Bakken: Region 4 ESC

Welcome

Looking for Quality in an Online Course

Whether you are a provider district or a receiver district

Look at what NACOL has set up

reasons why you need to look for good and bad online courses

Earlier talked about TEKS alignment

National Standards have a bit of wiggle room.

Activity with each other and discuss what you see

Introduced a Course reviewer

Linda Skarfer(sp?)

Talks about what is important in evaluating courses.

How do you know if it is compliant?

Jigsaw activity

Discussing the parts that each person looks for:

Content

Instructional Design

Student Assessment

Technology

Course Eval and Mangement

21st Century Skills

Groups will look at a specific area.