DACC Online Quality Assurance Plan for Professional Education

Online and hybrid courses are an essential part of DACC’s educational offerings. To ensure instruction of the highest quality in these modalities, DACC has adopted an Online Quality Assurance Plan for all faculty professional development.

Online instructional opportunities exist in every class. Instructors teaching face-to-face classes have online tools readily available to productively augment interactions in the classroom. By their very nature, hybrid classes rely even more heavily on the tools and strategies used for teaching and learning in online environments. In online courses, instructors will be exceptionally competent and confident in their understanding and application of course design and delivery.

The Online Quality Assurance Plan for professional development was updated and approved by faculty through their Faculty Council in November 2020. This plan will provide all DACC faculty the skills and knowledge required to effectively meet the criterion of the DACC Online Course Checklist.

OQA Professional Education Plan

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OQA Badges

Online Quality Assurance (OQA) is an institutional initiative at Doña Ana Community College that ensures quality in the design of their online and hybrid courses and superior online facilitation by their faculty. These expectations are based on Quality Matters (QM) standards as the subscribed metric of online excellence by the institution.

The following badges are available for DACC faculty: 

Certified Online Instructor Badge

Description for Earning Criteria: The recipient of this OQA-Certified Online Instructor credential has completed a rigorous professional learning pathway at Doña Community College to become an OQA-Certified Online Instructor. Participants have completed the following professional learning courses and acquired an advanced understanding and appreciation for best practices in higher education online teaching. 


Certified Online Course Designer Badge 

Description for Earning Criteria: The recipient of this OQA-Certified Online Course Designer credential has completed a rigorous professional learning pathway at Doña Community College to become an OQA-Certified Online Course Designer. Participants have acquired an advanced understanding and application of best practices in online course design for higher education courses.


Certified Hybrid Course Designer Badge

Description for Earning Criteria: The recipient of this OQA-Certified Hybrid Course Designer credential has completed a rigorous professional learning pathway at Doña Community College to become an OQA-Certified Hybrid Course Designer. Participants have acquired an advanced understanding and application of best practices in hybrid course design for higher education courses.