Peer Online Course Review

Peer Online Course Review (POCR) is a rigorous system that leverages the CVC Rubric for high-quality online course design, originally established in a partnership by the CCC Chancellor’s, CVC@ONE, and ASCCC. The processes included in Chaffey College’s local POCR system include Academy, Alignment, Reviewers, and Badging, and the courses that undergo the Alignment process receive a Quality Reviewed badge on the CVC Exchange.

POCR Academy

In this Chaffey College professional development, you will receive the CVC Rubric and practice implementing parts of it with guidance from trained facilitators. This is an excellent way to kickstart the alignment process.

 

Eligible Faculty

  • Faculty must have a class assignment when participating in Fall or Spring terms (this policy does not apply in the summer term).

 

Process Overview

  • There are two modalities of POCR Academy offered throughout the year according to faculty learning preferences: Synchronous Zoom sessions (with no in-person meetings) or facilitated asynchronous coursework through Canvas. 
  • Both modalities cover the same content, are offered in a three-week format, and are compensated in the same structure.
  • During Spring or Fall terms, first-time faculty participants may have the choice of 8 hours of Flex credit or 8 hours of payment at the seminar rate of $25/hour.
  • Any faculty repeating the training in Spring or Fall terms are only eligible to receive Flex credit.
  • During the Summer term, this professional development is limited to paid participants only.

 

Getting Involved

  • POCR Academy is offered twice in Fall and Spring terms and once in the Summer term; faculty may sign up through My Learning Hub.
  • If you have questions, contact the POCR Lead, Ryan Hitch.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

While Chaffey College DE praises any work that faculty do to align their online courses with the CVC Rubric, we believe the most equitable and effective approach to POCR Alignment is a facilitated one. If you believe you are close to a fully aligned course, we encourage you to stop your alignment work and contact the POCR Lead, Ryan Hitch, to learn how to apply for the next round of facilitated POCR Alignments so you can get compensated for your work.

As long as your course is fully online, offered for credit, and something you have taught in the last academic year, are teaching this semester, or will teach in the upcoming term, you are welcome to apply for POCR Alignment with that course.

Section D of the CVC Rubric requires full course accessibility. LTIs and publisher material, ranging from lecture slides to external courses like MindTap or Inquizitive, can sometimes present accessibility challenges that are difficult or impossible for the individual faculty to remediate (because they don’t own the material). Consequently, we ask about these elements in the interest form to learn about how they may affect the POCR Alignment process.

Once the faculty aligner believes they have fully aligned their eligible course in this facilitated process, the POCR Lead coordinates with two anonymous POCR Reviewers outside that aligner’s discipline to review that assertion of alignment and provide feedback. This is meant to mimic the student experience of someone outside the discipline navigating the course and course material.

Once you have completed the six week CVC@ONE POCR Reviewer Training course, there are two ongoing responsibilities. The first responsibility is a once-a-year obligation to attend one two-hour CVC-led POCR Norming Session via Zoom. Multiple sessions are announced each year on different days months in advance. The second responsibility is a recurring and paid optional opportunity to review courses that faculty aligners have worked on with the POCR Lead and DE Team.

While Chaffey College’s local POCR Academy is not required for POCR Reviewer Training or Alignment, faculty may find it beneficial and most beneficial to take first in the sequence.

The systemwide norm is for faculty to get compensated for POCR Alignment at the institution where that alignment work occurred. However, the systemwide norm is that the “Quality Reviewed” badge which demonstrates the faculty’s online excellence stays at that institution as well, and we believe that isn’t right. Faculty do great work everywhere they teach. Thus, we designed a form that provides us the information we need to badge your course locally with the least amount of additional work from you.

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