Online Course Development Guideline

Middlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road, Middletown, CT 06457

To ensure high quality of online learning, offering a new online (or hubrid) course needs to go through a proposal process to have it officially approved before it is on schedule. Interested faculty needs to fill out the Online Course Proposal Form (with the syllabus attached) and then obtain the necessary signatures in the order of the program coordinator, department chair, and Director of Distance Learning. Once the three aforementioned signatures are obtained, the proposal will be sent to the Dean of Learning and Student Development for final approval. After the Dean of Learning and Student Development approved and signed the proposal, the course is authorized to be on the course schedule.

When a different instructor is assigned to teach an existing online (or hybrid) course and the instructor has never taught an online course at MxCC, the instructor needs to fill out the Part II of the Online Course Proposal and go through the same approval process as the new online course.

The proposal submission dates to the Distance Learning office are January 15 for Fall semester and August 15 for Spring semester. Extension will be granted if the proposal needs to go through the program or department voting approval process.

The detailed information on the process of online course proposal development and online course development can be found from the following guideline with appendixes.

Online Course Development Guideline (.doc)

Appendix A, Online Course Proposal Form (.doc)

Appendix B, Online Course Proposal Evaluation (.doc)

Appendix C, Online Course Development Evaluation (.doc)

For questions about this guideline, contact Yi Guan-Raczkowski, Director of Distance Learning, at yguan@mxcc.commnet.edu or (860) - 343 -5783.

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