About Us
Online education has become an increasingly popular and essential mode of learning, especially for community college students. Doña Ana Community College (DACC) is committed to providing quality courses in all delivery modalities, including online and distance learning.
DACC has established high-quality standards for its online course design, instruction, and support services. The college utilizes a variety of tools and resources to ensure that its online courses are fully comparable in rigor to traditional on-campus courses. Our traditional courses are also web-enhanced utilizing our Learning Management System, Canvas, to provide all students with timely and necessary information in all their courses.
Online education at DACC offers students the flexibility to learn at their own pace and on their own schedule. The college provides a range of support services to help students succeed in their online courses, including technical support, academic advising, and access to library resources. The OQA initiative ensures online pedagogy professional learning, course design support, and ongoing adoptions of best practices in educational technology.
Online at DACC
Online courses are an essential part of our educational offerings. In these links, faculty are provided with guidelines and expectations to assist in developing their online courses.
Quality Matters
Doña Ana Community College has made the commitment to quality assurance for online learning by adopting Quality Matters as its quality assurance system.
Professional Development
There are many opportunities at DACC and NMSU to support, reinforce, and extend the DACC commitment for designing and developing high-quality online courses.
Course Design
Design your course efficiently and effectively using best practices instructional design concepts specifically tailored to the online learning environment.
- Course Map
- Design Resources
- Universal Design For Learning
- Canvas Course Template
- Open Education Resources: Merlot, Khan Academy, and Workforce Development
Course Delivery
Discover the pedagogy of online learning and teaching with resources that help you consider presence, interaction and effective communication
Artificial Intelligence Resources
Guidance for DACC faculty and staff for the online course development and use of Artificial Intelligence tools in developing courses, preparing students, and daily work.