To ensure that our course delivery is high quality, consistent, student-success focused, and integrated, the following criteria should be met before a faculty member designs, adopts or teaches an online course. This process may take two or more semesters to complete.
- All new online/hybrid course must go through Skyline College course approval process, which includes creating a distance education addendum and completing all the required components of course approval form and submission to the Curriculum Committee.
- Division Dean must approve the submission before it is forwarded to the Skyline College Curriculum Committee. Upon approval from the Curriculum Committee, the course can now be taught in an online or hybrid format.
- Faculty who teach an online/hybrid course must complete the Quality Online Teaching and Learning course facilitated by the Distance Education Coordinator and the Instructional Designer(s). Faculty who have received training from another higher education institution must provide a certificate of completion and documentation that indicates the content covered in the training to ensure that both distract approved LMS tools and Online Pedagogy were part of the professional development.
- Upon completion of Learning Management System (LMS) and Online Pedagogy Training (QOTL), faculty who plan on teaching online/hybrid must prepare a course for the Consultative Review. The course design submitted for consultative review must be 80% complete, following online pedagogy best practices and ensure that all materials in the course follow the federal, state, and district mandated accessibility requirements.
- Faculty members developing an online course need to work in tandem with the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL) which may include the following: Accessibility Specialist, Instructional Designer, Instructional Technologist, and Distance Education Coordinator along with other successful Online/Hybrid teaching faculty.
