Share Paper: Peer Review of Online Course Design and Instructional Behaviors: Expectations and Outcomes

1. Elizabeth Downs, Georgia Southern University, United States
2. Stephanie Jones, Georgia Southern University, United States
3. Cordelia Zinskie, Georgia Southern University, United States
4. Carl Sorgen, Georgia Southern University, United States
5. Lucas Jensen, Georgia Southern University, United States

Abstract: Online learning has become an integral component of higher education with 31.6 % of all college students (over 6 million) participating in online courses (Seaman, Allen, and Seaman, 2018). While the exponential growth of online courses has been focused on meeting the needs of students, little research exists that examines instructor effectiveness (Thomas, 2018). Additionally, many of the current online evaluation models focus on the design of the courses while overlooking online instructional behaviors of course instructors. The purpose of this proposed roundtable presentation is to initiate a dialogue on this topic, from the perspective of both the peer reviewer ...