Conference Presentations

According to the Numbers, Templates are Good for You: How Data Promotion Contributed to a University-Wide Template in Over 4,900 Courses and Counting … 

Aristotle once said, “Quality is not an act; it’s a habit.” The Ambassador, Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, has made quality a habit by prioritizing student feedback to deliver high-quality online courses and programs. ACCBE utilizes a collaborative, open-communication approach to set the stage for creating a culture of quality focused on continuous improvement and student success.

Research shows that a higher intensity of engagement leads to greater performance in online classes. But how can we verify this at our own institutions? What types of data can support this research and how do we access it?

This session will explore the intersection of faculty development and the implementation of Quality Matters at a public higher education institution. It offers a comprehensive overview of how a data-driven approach can be leveraged to enhance faculty development programs and effectively integrate the QM framework in course design to impact student learning. The presentation will provide actionable takeaways and best practices for using data to evaluate faculty development and QM implementation.

Idaho Digital Learning Alliance (IDLA) has developed a system to deliver data nudges to the right person, at the right time, in the right place, and for the right reasons to be a potent change agent. Data nudges are proactive ways of providing actionable alerts to parents, students, and teachers. Examples include when students fall behind, have late assignments, or have otherwise been identified as "At Risk" for failing. This nudging system, which we call Clarity, is helping us to assist students and close student achievement gaps proactively.

Research shows that student outcomes are significantly affected by the instructor's belief in their abilities. If so, it would be important to understand how this belief gets translated to students through your written and verbal communication. After analysis of several thousand text threads and comparison of student outcome data, patterns of both effective and ineffective communication emerged. These patterns have been codified into a rubric for training and self evaluation. Learn all about our process, findings, the rubric, and how to use it in this session.

This session will focus on using research tools to collect data to support online learners. We will discuss our journey in re-developing an online learner readiness instrument at two universities. We will describe our collaborative research process and share the results of our validation study. Then we will discuss how the Learning Skills Journey Tool has been re-conceptualized to support undergraduate learners in self-assessment, connecting students with resources and support services, and helping student support coaches identify opportunities for students to develop learning skills.

Nearly a decade after designing my courses based on Quality Matters (QM) Standards and teaching fully online, the March 2020 pivot to emergency remote instruction was business as usual for my students while I assisted my colleagues with the transition online.

For many academic institutions, online learning has become an increasingly integral component of their educational enterprises (Garrett et al., 2022). However, a fundamental question underpins each of these initiatives. How can institutions efficiently and intentionally evaluate the efficacy of their online learning operations and chart a course forward that would maximize the success of their learners? Critical to the conversations addressing this question is the involvement of instructional designers, e-learning administrators, and other institutional online learning professionals.

In this session, participants will learn about how the Maricopa Community Colleges have evolved their program viability processes to ensure the curriculum developed meets the needs of the diverse students and communities served by our institutions. We will discuss how the Maricopa Community Colleges established and leveraged these processes to design and develop relevant curriculum that supports the diverse students and communities our institutions serve.

Looking for ways to easily locate and use QM data to support your QA planning? This session will address how to use standard and customizable QM data reports and dashboards to track professional development, course reviews, and QM role holders to support and evaluate your implementation efforts.