Filtering+Online+Course+Content+for+Quality

= Filtering Online Course Content for Quality =

**Jennifer Kolar-Burden, Illinois Virtual School**

 * Email: jburden@ilvirtual.org**
 * Phone: 309-676-1000 ext. 56**

**Kelly Pochop, Racine Unified School District - partner member of Wisconsin eSchool Network**

 * Email: kelly.pochop@racine.k12.wi.us**
 * Phone: 262-664-8734**

// Jennifer Kolar Burden from Illinois Virtual School will share insights from a professional development project that encompasses an internal review of online course content. For an external review process, Kelly Pochop invites you to see the first public demonstration of a Course Evaluation Tool designed by a group of Wisconsin school districts using iNACOL standards. This online database tool filters the content of virtual learning courses in four ways with global, granular, standards, and summary views. //


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Quality Curriculum through Standards Alignment is the course developed by the Illinois Virtual School as part of a multi-year realignment project to bring our full course catalog up to the revised ILS and CORE Standards. Please view the attached presentation, and contact Jennifer Kolar-Burden if you have questions. In answer to my most received question, yes, we do plan to roll this course out as part of our IVS-PD arm. Dates for that have not been set but if you are interested in the course, please contact Jennifer.



The Course Evaluator is an online database developed by the partner districts of the Wisconsin eSchool Network and BocaVox. This valuable tool is in beta status at present and still contains a lot of test data and typos. However, if you are interested in having a look, go to Course Evaluator to request access. We will send access credentials as soon as we are ready and able. A brief slideshow of the presentation's main points are available as a GoogleDoc Just for fun - "coming soon" you can download the old 2005 paper-based version of the Course Evaluator as designed by Joan Peebles, retired instructional technology coordinator from Madison Virtual Campus of the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Solid looking method for making course improvements to course. An annual 3 phrase process. Seems that Illinois Virtual has adapted their Curriculum Director to match the needs of online courses.

Wisconsin eSchool Network evaluator tool looks great. It would be interesting to see how the tool would look with lots of data in the system. I think a challenge would be to make this process work without making it more red tape to delay getting digital content in front of students. Of course, quality content is a high priority; however, courses now will be changing so quickly that keeping up with the changes and updates will be a challenge. This tool is definitely a step in the right direction. :)