1. Jane Kanas, Pranil Prabhakar, Mohammed Hussein
Thinking "Quality" in Online Courses at the University of the South Pacific
Title
Jane Kanas, Pranil Prabhakar, Mohammed Hussein

2. Who are we?
The University of the South Pacific (USP) region - 12 member countries of Oceania
Cook Islands
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
Niue
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Source: USP 2016 Prospectus Back Cover

3. Where are we housed?
Source: Jane Kanas 2016

4. How many teams? Administration Team
Learning Design and Development Team
Multi-media Team
Learning Systems Team

5. What platform? Moodle use began in 2007
Effectively encouraged from 2013

6. Who does what? Instructional Designer/Learning Designer (team leader)
Education Technologist
Electronic Publisher
Course writer
(external to team)
May include
Multi-media Team

7. What are we guided by? 2013 – 2018 Strategic Plan:
Objective 1.4: Undertake a large-scale conversion of USP courses for flexible delivery

8. How a course is developed?
Conversions from:
F2F to online
Print to online
Different phases of a course
Minor Revision
Revised
New courses - Online

9. What approach? Individual approach Student feedback Course by course
CW enthusiasm
Student feedback
Lack of consistency

10. Is there another way? Programme approach adopted
Standardisation: What standards?
Quality Matters
8 general standards
43 specific review standards

11. So what did we do? Template design Other factors Invitation to design
Templates submitted
Assessment of templates
Decision
Other factors
Student engagement
Innovative teaching styles

12. How did we create them? Applied standards Aesthetics and design
Economics Course 1
Applied standards
Aesthetics and design
Language Course
Economics Course 2

13. How is it shaping?
Source: USP Strategic Plan p30

14. What do we expect? Student feedback Teaching team feedback
Impact on student retention, interactivity
Lessons learnt

15. Do you have any questions?

16. Where did we get info from?
Hazelman, Valentine; Conversion of Programmes Online, SMT Paper.
USP Strategic Plan 2013 – 2018, p30
USP 2016 Prospectus, Back Cover
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