October 13, 2000

Study Assesses What Participants Look for in High-Quality Online Courses

By DAN CARNEVALE

A study of online instruction has concluded that creating a high-quality online course doesn't require anything fancy, but isn't necessarily easy, either.

Although the quality of a distance-education course is of utmost importance to students, faculty members, and administrators, they don't always agree on what components make up the best courses, said Lee R. Alley, manager of instructional-technology projects at Montgomery College's campus in Rockville, Md. He spoke at the Educause

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