ABSTRACT
This chapter first demonstrates how online teaching and learning can be enhanced by the collegial efforts of faculty members working collaboratively to analyze and improve their online courses. It focuses on a process for improving instruction and learning without alienating faculty members. The chapter then emphasizes the collaborative use of the Quality Matters Rubric to review and revise online course designs and the Community of Inquiry survey to iteratively review and revise learning processes in the identified courses. It also presents a description of the program in which these changes were made, and the stakeholders affected by these changes, with the focus on continuous improvement, as will the application of a collaborative/collegial approach and backward design to assure design quality and implementation. The chapter concludes with practical recommendations and advice for those programs and institutions desiring to make similar improvements in their online courses and programs.
