The Noel Levitz PSOL Survey at NMSU: A Baseline for Future Research

At our university we continue to move toward improving the quality of online courses, using Quality Matters as our quality metric. In order to measure the impact of our efforts to introduce Quality Matters to the institution, we have been formulating new ideas and new way to measure that impact. In the Spring, we adopted the Noel Levitz PSOL survey sponsored by Quality Matters to learn more about our students perceptions about online courses. The survey inquires about the various online services that are important to them as well as their perceptions about the quality of online instruction.  In this session, we will share our findings and observations as a result of this year's study. We will also discuss our plans for second- and third-year studies as well as additional research ideas. A short discussion will follow regarding the results and possible impact.