Using Systems Thinking and a Community of Practice to Ensure Online and Flexible Course Quality

• In Event: STC- Using Systems Thinking and a Community of Practice to Ensure Online and Flexible Course Quality

Short Description

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of online and flexible course quality in higher education. Making course quality an institutional priority requires the involvement of a variety of stakeholders. Teaching faculty are imperative to making and maintaining change in higher education. This session describes how a learning services unit used system thinking strategies and a faculty community of practice to build consensus within existing structures to facilitate online and flexible course quality across the institution.

Authors

• Presenter: M. Aaron Bond, Virginia Tech

• Presenter: Larry Cox, II, Virginia Tech University

• Presenter: Dawn Follin, Virginia Tech

• Contributor: Nikki Edwards, Virginia Tech

• Presenter: Daron Williams, Virginia Tech