Teaching Institution: Orientation Criteria

• Four Principal Areas
• Preparing
• Syllabi

Teaching Institutions must complete a one-hour orientation in advance of loading their courses onto the Acadeum platform.

One of the main purposes of this review is to ensure that Teaching Institutions are able to support the Home institution’s responsibility for demonstrating quality assurance over the courses that it uses as well as the Home Institution students as they start courses at the Teaching Institution. 

Areas of Focus

In reviewing online course providers, Acadeum has developed criteria in four principal areas:

1. Supporting Home Institution Quality Assurance over the courses it uses

2. Student Support

3. Curriculum and Instructional Design

4. Faculty Development and Support
   
   

Acadeum established these criteria on the basis of reviewing leading approaches to quality online learning and course sharing, including:

• Practices in appropriate student onboarding by leading online program institutions 

• Quality Matters’ course-based and program-based approaches

• Regulatory requirements for course sharing

Preparing

To prepare for the review, please consider the following questions:

1. What is your process for creating login credentials for non-degree seeking students? 

2. How will student login and attendance be monitored and reported to Acadeum prior to the drop date?

3. Are you able to easily access syllabi to upload updated syllabi to the Acadeum platform?

4. Are you able to gather basic faculty credentials (degree, degree area) and upload them to the Acadeum platform?

5. Do you have access to any course-level assessment data? How might you help Home Institution’s demonstrate their review of the quality of your courses?

Syllabi

Teaching Institutions are required to post syllabi or course information to the platform to facilitate Home Institution course adoption and quality assurance. Home Institutions want to review a syllabus, faculty credentials, and complete course description during the course approval and quality assurance process.

The best practice is to provide an up-to-date syllabus for each course, but it is also possible to meet this requirement by using:

1. A syllabus from a past section of the same course with the dates removed

2. Master course syllabus

3. A Course Minimum Information form.