Conference Presentations

Student evaluation data is wonderful. It's but one measure of course quality. Discover how student behavioral data in the learning management system can provide clear and positive impact of QM review on online courses.

Universities with limited resources to commit to online learning may find the peer mentor model a helpful means to lay the groundwork for increased institutional support, as well as a means of engaging faculty in the online/hybrid program development process.

In this interactive session, you’ll engage with 7 Quality Indicators for including accessibility in your institution’s procurement of educational materials and technologies. You’ll also practice using a self-assessment tool for monitoring continuous improvement.

Standard 4.3 in the QM Rubric emphasizes the importance of acknowledging “previously published, instructor created materials, journal articles, publisher materials, textbooks, images, graphic materials, tables, videos, audio recordings, websites, slides, and other forms of multimedia.” (Annotation, 6^th edition QM Rubric). You will practice ways of “modeling” these concepts in this session.

Are there times when you find the prescriptive structure and processes of Quality Matters to be limiting? Do you want to know what Ernest Hemingway and Dr. Seuss have in common with QM? Join us for an interactive exploration of the unexpected freedom and creativity that can accompany constraint.

This session will discuss an ongoing QM research project on the phases institutions move through in their goal of implementing the quality assurance facets of QM. Come hear the results of the pilot study and provide critical feedback to reflect and enhance your own institutional path and goals.

This fireside chat-style conversation will provide insight into national regulatory and policy intentions and practices related to quality assurance and new forms of teaching and learning. Considering the rapid growth of alternative providers of education, the conversation will turn to questions about what quality assurance might look like in the future as higher education and alternative providers begin to "share" students. Will we see more collaboration between them and who is responsible for quality in that relationship?

Join an expedition on a mission to blaze uncommon paths to quality. Your Paths-Less-Traveled Toolkit will introduce online tools and innovative uses of traditional LMS tools for building highly interactive classes with multi-level group engagement. #QMConnectPaths

Who leads quality assurance on a daily basis? Our instructional designers pursue quality using an innovative, collaborative approach to course development. Strike a balance giving feedback on design guidelines without dampening faculty creativity.

Who leads quality assurance on a daily basis? Our instructional designers pursue quality using an innovative, collaborative approach to course development. Strike a balance giving feedback on design guidelines without dampening faculty creativity.
 

Is your institution ready to launch a quality online program?  Do you need ideas to “break through” faculty disinterest or inertia with respect to QM?   Then this session is for you!  Come along on a “tour” of one institution’s journey to quality, what we are learning along to way, and how we are embracing the challenges we know are yet to come. 

How can collages, purposeful flaws, and no-win scenarios make over your engagement levels? Learn the subtle art of embedding microchallenge ingredients throughout your course to whet your students’ appetite and keep them coming back for more.

University's COLT course (Certificate for Online Learning and Teaching) and how the COLT course can be used as a model for training instructors to achieve quality in online programs at your institution.

University's COLT course (Certificate for Online Learning and Teaching) and how the COLT course can be used as a model for training instructors to achieve quality in online programs at your institution.

How do you deconstruct an existing course so that you can easily see what needs to be revised for it to meet established best practices in online course design? In this session you will learn to use a tool that makes it (almost) child's play to build or revise online courses that meet QM expectations.

Demonstration of the Cidi Labs Design Tools in Canvas will be shown, both screenshots and a live demo, wireless connectivity permitting.  We will also discuss the steps we took to create templates to help meet specific QM standards.  Participants will also be shown how to request a sandbox with Cidi Labs to try out the tools themselves.  A question/answer session will also be included at the end of the talk.

Let's face it, course design with QM Standard 8 in mind can take time!  We'll cover the basic challenges in video accessibility and options to make creating course videos easy...dare we say fun!  If you have wondered about Screencast-o-matic and love YouTube, this session is a chance to plan a script and create a video. Bring your laptop, a presentation file, a previously recorded video, or just your curiosity.  We will provide script templates that let you create content during the session or write a solid plan for your next project.

The amount of information about accessible digital content can be overwhelming. Our panel of higher educators will give you practical tips about slowing the fire hose when your institution is just getting started with accessibility.

Leverage the features in your LMS to meet QM standards on an institutional level allowing faculty to focus on the content standards. An instructional designer, division leadership, faculty from Humanities, Math, and Health Sciences will explain how a college wide approach to meeting standards is saving faculty course representatives time and creating a consistent user experience for all students college wide.

We use three models for multi-media in our courses: videos of faculty created while collaborating with a video production specialist, student created videos, and faculty “lectures”. We will discuss these models and the successes and challenges we faced in creating multi-media for our courses.