COAT at the WCET Conference, October 26-29

COAT will be at the WCET (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies) conference in Denver in October.   If you plan to attend the conference, October 26-29, 2011, we invite you to attend our presentation "MarylandOnline's COAT Online Adjunct Faculty Training Project Outcomes: Expect the Unexpected."  

See http://wcetconference.wiche.edu/ for conference information

COAT at the Quality Matters Conference, November 7-9

COAT will be at the Quality Matters conference in November.  If you plan to attend the conference, November 7-9, 2011, at the Baltimore Inner Harbor, we invite you to attend our presentation.! 

See http://www.qmprogram.org/3rd-annual-conference-2011 for QM conference information. 

COAT Course Meets Quality Matters Expectations

The COAT course recently underwent a Quality Matters course review, as part of our 3 year plan. We are happy to announce that the COAT course met QM expectations, earning a perfect score! This was exactly the goal of the COAT course development team that designed and developed the course in the spring of 2010. The development team was comprised of 6 talented individuals with experience and expertise in the areas of instructional design, online teaching, distance learning administration and, of course, Quality Matters standards. The 6 team members came from 6 different institutions, lending a broad perspective to the course topics.

Congratulations to the development team for a job well done! 

•  Mary Beth Graham (Mount St. Mary's University)
•  Karen Rubinstein (Morgan State University)
•  Deborah Turner (Wor-Wic Community College)
•  Dr. Diana Zilberman (Baltimore City Community College)
•  Gregory Williams (University of Maryland Baltimore Campus)
•  Bobbi Dubins (Allegany College of Maryland). 

COAT in the "International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)"

COAT is gaining recognition in the research community!  A research article about the COAT project was recently published in the The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL). IRRODL is a peer-reviewed, open source journal dedicated to the field of distance learning. The article is entitled "MarylandOnline's inter-institutional project to train higher education adjunct faculty to teach online" and gives a detailed overview of the project, including research results from the pilot course which ran April-June 2010. The article was written by Julie Shattuck, Bobbi Dubins, and Diana Zilberman.

A full-text copy of the article may be viewed at http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/933

Distance Education Report Features COAT

COAT was featured in the February 15, 2011 issue of Distance Education Report, published by Magna Publishing.  "From Quality Matters to COATS: MarylandOnline Rolls Out Its New Faculty Development Program" can be viewed at http://www.magnapubs.com/newsletter/story/5584/