From the Institute for Higher Education Policy, the seven categories are: - institutional support - faculty support - student support - course design - course structure - assessment - evaluation

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<a href="http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/912/1644" rel="nofollow">Chao, I. T., Saj, T., & Hamilton, D. (2010). Using collaborative course development to achieve online course quality standards. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 11(3), 106-126. www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/912/1644</a> (thanks, Natalie G from Guelph for adding this to her annotated bibliography)

As for the notes themselves, I'm working on using this new retinal display iPad for visual notes. The super high resolution takes some getting used to. For example, see the tiny text? No, me either but that's the size that I'm used to drawing/writing. I have more control at that size. The larger, thicker stroke feels somehow clumsy, awkward not as nice.