La Norma 71362:2020 de “Calidad de los materiales educativos digitales” elaborada por UNE responde a la necesidad de proporcionar un documento de referencia sobre la calidad de los materiales educativos digitales (MED) y una herramienta para su medición.
To help campuses ensure that their online courses are learner centered and well designed, a team of Open SUNY staff and campus stakeholders has designed the OSCQR rubric, a customizable and flexible tool for online course quality review.
The OSCQR rubric specifically targets online course design. The OSCQR rubric is unique and differs from other online course quality rubrics in several ways. It is not restricted to mature online courses. The rubric can be used formatively with new online faculty to help guide, inform, and influence the design of their new online courses, and, it is non-evaluative.
Conceptually, the rubric and the online course review and refresh process are implemented as a professional development exercise designed to guide online faculty to use research-based effective practices and standards to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of their online course design, rather than as an online course evaluation, or quality assurance procedure.
The Quality Assurance Framework was developed by a special task force, which worked closely over a two-year period with the Vice-Presidents Academic; it was approved by the Executive Heads of Ontario universities. The Quality Assurance Guide was developed to support the Framework.
The Guide contains practical suggestions, references and sample templates that can be accessed throughout the Quality Assurance Framework document by clicking on the link provided. The Guide has not been created as a stand-alone document.
In this online resource, the model used for course development is a project team-based structure. The framework still can be used by those who have a "lone ranger" approach to the course development process. All of the resources can be used as they are and are in development, based on the feedback received and ongoing research in the field. You can evaluate/modify your courses using the checklists provided in this module.
If not designed with accessibility in mind, Learning Management Systems (LMS) can pose accessibility problems for students and instructors with disabilities. Depending on the features enabled for a given course, students with disabilities could find that participating independently and effectively is nearly impossible. Some LMS tools—Discussions, Quizzes, Chat, or Wiki tools, for instance—can be more problematic than others. Learning Management Systems are becoming richer and more complex applications, and if they are not designed with accessibility in mind, it can be next to impossible to make them accessible and usable to users with various needs.
Important LMS features depends on your specific requirements. For example, a LMS solution that is successful for a University it does not mean that it will be successful for a large organization. This is why I listed the 99 LMS features in alphabetical order and not in an importance order.