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The Cycle of Course Design-interactive poster session

Our hope is that, by the end of the session, participants will be able to reflect on the effect an integrated designed course blueprint has on their ability to improve teaching and significant student learning by:

Analyzing current course design and redesign practices.
Examining how integrated course design improves their teaching and student learning.
Considering a model to integrate alignment, student and program assessment, and professional growth.

The Online Students are Here! Reimagining Support Services for Online Student Success

The online students are here! This session will be focused on how to provide high quality student services. Historically offering mainly face-to-face programs, our school has been ramping up our online student services in anticipation of a big transition as we launch our first online Masters degree in fall 2020. The rapid shift to remote education due to COVID-19 forced us to launch these efforts in the spring of 2020.

The Pursuit of Clarity: An Instructional Model of Learning

In fall of 2019 our Director of Curriculum and Instruction attended a statewide training with other curriculum directors across the state of Arkansas. In this session, the curriculum directors across the state were asked, "What is your Instructional Model?" It was at that time our Director of Curriculum and Instruction reached out to our C&I team and Design and Development team and asked, "What is our Instructional Model?" We didn't have a clear answer. We had practices, beliefs, procedures, and QM/NSQ standards.

Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Strategy in an Online Course

The crowd-sourced site Wikipedia historically is disregarded by the academic community as unreliable. However, online college courses can help improve Wikipedia. This poster explains how journalism and mass communication courses taught online applied subject-matter concepts according to Quality Matters standards to edit Wikipedia articles. This approach can be used for any subject.