Who creates an implements policy within the organization first starts with where the original emphasis comes from. If a Dept of Education mandate causes a policy to be affected, then specific members of the organization responsible for that task-area are included, eventually going through compliance. The more closely-related to process, then less levels of the organization need to be involved.
Implementing on-line policies should include a number of people including but not limited to members of your faculty, advisory board members, and operations people as well. Within the existing university. a committee along with a committee chairperson should establish all of the rules, regulations, and general policies of your on-line program. Once policy is established, professional development should be held so that everyone involved is on the same page.
The best advice I can offer would be to gather all the staff to discuss what they have seen in best practices and discuss to see if the fit the model you are planning. Most of the time policies and or procedures have been rolled out that can be tailored to your school. If they do not fit exactly change to meet your specific needs.
We are fortunate to have a Dean of Information Technology who is responsible for coordinating all online course development and policies. However, there are frequent "task forces" assigned to discuss, research, and develop the policies that ultimately become implemented.
However, perhaps the most important aspect, is that these policies are revisited and open for debate often. Faculty of online courses are very active in tweaking policies as necessary.
Our institution has also found that the most useful policies are those which are general enough to allow well-trained faculty opportunities to use professional judgement when implementing them to their own courses.
It is created at the office of distance learning in conjunction with each academic unit then submitted to the Academic Council for approval.
Academic Director is in charge of this responsability.
Currently we have no online courses for the Institute, this is a huge step forward and extremely necessary if we want to remain competive with other colleges that have already implemented online courses. This is what prompted my entering this class.
Policies are set at both the corporate and course level. The director of training with support from advisory board should be responsible for the implementation
The director of training with support from advisory board is responsible. Policies are developed to replicate as much as possible the ground courses. New on line policies are based on research from similar institutions
The director of training with support from advisory board is responsible. Policies are developed to replicate as much as possible the ground courses. New on line policies are based on research from similar institutions
Recently my Institution went through the process of re-Accreditation. Shortly thereafter, we also underwent new accreditation. Both processes caused us to create and implement several new policies, and revamp existing ones.
In order for a new (or existing) policy to implemented, you must have feedback from all parties that would be involved. It is easy to create policies, but the real task is implementing them in a way that is efficient, error-free, and student friendly as possible.
New policy implementation should start with a committee that includes all members who have experience or knowledge with the policy being discussed. Once all the details are on the table, the key players can then organize all the steps involved, including how and when to communicate the changes, and who is responsible for overseeing the implementation.
It is easy for an institution to create the policy. The real sign a solid institution is the ability to implement the policies set forth.
Online academic policies should be created by the corporate office but the faculty is responsible for implementing them.
Currently we have no online courses. For the Institute this is a huge step forward and this is what prompted my entering this class. The administrative policy will be set by the Executive Director, myself, while curriculum will be set by the facilitator with faculty teaching specific topic related classes. Our first class will be one that covers the basics of certain theory. Once both the policies and curriculum are set, it will be presented to the Board of Directors for approval.
My institution is only begining to research having online courses, however, at this time it would seem that the course developement will be made by the staff.
We are in the process of creating and implementing online courses. At my school, the faculty, program chairs and dean are responsible to developing the online policies and it will come down the program chairs and dean to implement them.
In our school online program policies were created by a committee of administrative and faculty personal under the VP of Academic Affairs. This committee created policies from standards of qualities necessary in developing online course to plagiarism policy.
In each of our campuses there is a Director of Distance Learning which is responsible to implementing those policies with each Academic Department.
We have also an academic committee and a technological committee that deals with different issues of our Distance Education Program.
We currently do not have any online programs in place and are working with a third party to develop curriculum and delivery methods. We intend on using our current on campus policies for the online program. Our on campus policies have been created by students, faculty, staff, and administration. Our on campus policies are implemented by administration and faculty. While we intend on using our current on campus policies, we understand that new policies will have to be created and implemented.
Thanks! I thought about it, after I sent the question.
the entire administration is involved in launching potential on line courses. Although CEU's might be our best starting point, elective offerings might also do well. Our academic department is trying to identify the most successful starting point.
Is the Academic Department responsible for implementing them?
I am looking into an open source learning management system to implement a pilot in our school. Any recommendations?
Thank you very much in advance.
