I spent a few hours last night trying to find literature on benchmarks and quality indicators for traditional "brick & mortar" courses. Talk about looking for a "hay" in a "needle stack"! I dug and dug until my fingertips bled. Nothing. NOTHING!
Whether you search Google Scholar, ProQuest, or EbscoHosst one thing quickly becomes clear. There hasn't been much (possibly less) work on general benchmarks or quality indicators for brick & mortar instruction in the past ten years. --Or perhaps it is called something completely different and I haven't yet stumbled upon the magic key words. This is likely.
I was able to find plenty of related work in evaluation, but that isn't what I want (or need) evaluating a particular course is different from examining a list of general quality indicators that can be applied to most courses. Hmm... or is it? More questions.
Well, regardless, it seems apparent that the "internet" has created a big push for quality assessment of online courses but the rapid advance of classroom teachnology in brick & mortar courses hasn't spawned nearly so much interest in course quality. Why?
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