Our Services
VCCS and Magellan Learning Solutions
Partnering for Online Success
- Does your online program stand up to increased scrutiny from accreditors and NC-SARA?
- Are you concerned about RSI, ADA compliance, and Universal Design?
- Do you want to improve or expand your online program?
Magellan Learning Solutions is an approved vendor with the experience and expertise to help VCCS institutions stay up-to-date in all these areas.
The Opportunity
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) has formalized an agreement with Magellan Learning Solutions to
- Assess online course offerings and delivery and recruitment mechanisms
- Design and develop online courses
- Provide professional development and evaluation services for online faculty
- Evaluate and implement quality assurance and retention strategies for online learners.[1]
[1] Contract VCCS-WIDE-22-2152-MLS
Partnering with Magellan
When you partner with us, we provide an experienced team to help you do the following:
- Improve your institution’s online operations, policies, and processes
- Align your online curriculum with best practices that support a consistent and high-quality student experience
- Assist you in expanding your online program offerings to new areas of opportunity
- Develop, support, and coach your online team
- Improve student success via NC-SARA, RSI, OLC, QM, DEI, and ADA-informed course design and delivery strategies
- Analyze and present the data that you need to assure quality, compliance, and student success
The Magellan Team
The Magellan team brings more than a century of higher education experience to your project. They have executive-level experience at regionally accredited institutions of higher education in both the private and public sectors, and have worked in areas ranging from academic affairs to student services to assessment and institutional effectiveness to instructional design and IT.
They also bring a workforce of more than 300 subject matter experts, instructional designers and editors, and other personnel familiar with the online space to help you identify and implement solutions for your challenges. As experienced faculty and administrators, the Magellan team will work alongside university stakeholders to tailor and stand up curriculum and other associated services to each campus–in a timely fashion. Magellan focuses on providing the expertise and workforce you need to turn your challenges into opportunities.
The Project
Best practices, institutional data, and student success power the Magellan process.
Discovery Phase
Magellan begins its journey with each partner institution in a discovery phase that explores its current course offerings and identifies.
Course Template
The goal of the Discovery Phase is to then inform a course template that will undergird the online student’s experience moving forward.
Course Development
Magellan will work with personnel on the campus to develop and deliver content in a format that foregrounds student experience.
Course Review
Magellan will then evaluate each new or newly transitioned online course for ADA compliance and industry best practices.
Professional Development
Magellan will provide in-depth professional development and coaching for all faculty and staff involved in the online program.
The End Game
Higher education needs to be responsive and nimble. With the enrollment cliff looming, legislators exercising increasing oversight, and real gaps in degree attainment, the need for flexible, relevant content—delivered in a student-centered way—is clear. More than half of US Higher Education students are already taking an online course [2].
Magellan brings the workforce, experience, and expertise that can help campuses improve their existing online offerings or branch out into new territories. Your students’ success is your campus’s success.
[2] Hill, P. (2021, 7 October). Alternative View – More than 50% of US Higher Ed students took at least one course online in 2019-20. Phil on EdTech. https://philonedtech.com/alternative-view-more-than-50-of-us-higher-ed-students-took-at-least-one-online-course-in-2019-20/
Want to Learn More?
Magellan offers a full spectrum of services in the area of program and course development. We can help you design and develop new educational materials, and we can also help evaluate and redevelop your current lineup of courses. We can bring an entire curriculum development team and act as your development department, or we can bring in select team members to augment an existing team at your organization.