Peer Review Essay

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Stage 3
During the 2005-06 academic year an additional 10-15 faculty members were trained to be peer reviewers as part of Stage 3. This training was conducted by the peer review coordinator and included a discussion of standards of best practice, the use of the scoring rubric and how to provide useful and constructive peer criticism. As part of Stage 3, almost 30 online courses were reviewed.
The most important ‘on-the-job’ training for these new reviewers was and still is the process of reviewing courses with experienced peer reviewers. These course reviews are conducted as a team with an identified team leader, usually a Master Online Instructor. In addition, whenever possible, each team includes a member of the same or a similar discipline/program …show more content…

When the course has been revised to meet the quality standards, the peer review process is considered to be complete. The peer review faculty leaders and the dean decided that courses would not carry any official “seal of approval” after completing the review process. The purpose of the program is continuous quality improvement, for which it was decided that public recognition was not important nor is a final end point appropriate in the process of continuous quality improvement.
To date there is no administrative oversight of the quality peer process and annual reports highlight the number of courses reviewed and discuss courses in the aggregate not …show more content…

It has not happened to date and its eventual implementation is in doubt. The teams, as LSC envisioned them, were to be multi-member, multi-institutional teams with one faculty member from the home institution of the course and two other members from other MnSCU institutions. Once again one member would be from the same or similar discipline and two from other disciplines or programs. A mix of representation from MnSCU’s two- and four schools was desired. Apart from avoiding the inevitable conflict of interest in the peer review process, this inter-institutional peer review was also intended, in part, to facilitate transferability of courses among and between

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