Learn Together in a Virtual Setting
QM Live! Workshops Span a Range of Topics
Work with your peers in a facilitated, hands-on workshop to improve courses and support student success. The 2-Hour options are particularly helpful for targeting specific course design challenges. These interactive, virtual workshops are primarily available as dedicated sessions for your group — appropriate for both higher ed and K-12 educators. A limited number of open registration sessions are also available throughout the year. See the Virtual/Synchronous tab on the Professional Development Schedule.
See options by session length below. Virtual sessions can be grouped for focusing on specific course design skills. Select the title for description and more information link.
- Active Learning Strategies
Get an overview of learning preferences and types of interaction, then put active learning activities to work in your online or hybrid course.Learn More - Aligning Assessments with Objectives
- Aligning Instructional Materials, Activities & Tools with Objectives
Align the instructional materials, activities and tools with the objectives used in your course.Learn More - Communicating New Policies for Online Courses
Get tips and hands-on experience for communicating attendance, netiquette and other course or institutional polices to your learners.Learn More - Creating Discussion Board Rubrics
Get the most out of discussion board posts by developing a rubric for learners so they know what's expected of them.Learn More - Developing Activities to Engage Your Learners
Get learners vested in their learning experience with group activities that are aligned with your objectives.Learn More - Helping Learners Track Their Progress
Get hands-on experience with techniques for delivering feedback that communicates progress to your learners.Learn More - Introductions and Overviews: Helping Learners Get Started
- Measurable, Precise, Consistent & Clear Objectives
Create objectives that are measurable, precise, and clear at both the course and module/unit level.Learn More - Providing Accessible Web Content
Get hands-on experience with utilizing techniques and basic HTML to ensure accessibility of your course content.Learn More - Rethinking Assessments for Application & Engagement
This two-hour synchronous session is delivered online to help you get up and running right away with ideas for using assessments in online courses.Learn More - Rethinking Content for the Online Classroom
This two-hour synchronous session is delivered online to help you get up and running right away with ideas for transforming, sourcing or creating content that is appropriate for online learning.Learn More - Setting Expectations & Learner Support: Helping Learners be Successful
- Using the Flipped Approach for Synchronous Online Learning
This two-hour synchronous session is delivered online to help you create a plan to use meeting times effectively.Learn More
- Creating Course Alignment Maps (CCM)
Explore the concept of alignment and create an alignment map for a module in your course.Learn More - Design That Welcomes Your Learners (Standards 1 & 7)
Take your online or hybrid course and explore methods to set social and instructor presence and provide institution support. This workshop specifically addresses Standards 1 and 7 in the QM Rubric.Learn More - Synchronous Online Teaching
Explore best practices for synchronous online delivery during the Synchronous Online Teaching workshop. During the workshop, you will investigate ways to teach online effectively and discover how to incorporate proven practices into your courses to help both you and your students have a better online experience.Learn More
- Enhancing the Learning Experience: Course Tools and Media
Get help finding, evaluating and employing new instructional materials that align with your course objectives.Learn More - K-12 Instructional Materials: Investigating What Works
Dive into instructional materials in a small group, interactive setting to see what really works.Learn More - Learning is Not a Spectator Sport: Make It Active!
Get hands-on, interactive experience with identifying and incorporating active learning in your courses.Learn More
