Conference Presentations

Assessing program learning outcomes in multi-campus online programs can be difficult to navigate, especially when each campus has its own identity, culture, priorities, and practices. We have developed a set of standard processes that can be used across our multi-campus online programs. Balancing the diverging views and priorities of each campus involves negotiating, compromising, and developing consensus. Anticipating implementation obstacles has been essential to develop effective processes. 

Providing multiple means of learning for students when designing World Language courses requires deliberate design and an intentional focus on digital accessibility. Meeting the needs of all learners in a World Language course often requires cross-organizational support and communication. Collaborate with fellow educators to discuss strategies for supporting World Language learners when designing and teaching online World Language courses that meet the digital accessibility needs of students. 

Finding partners to build and grow your QM community is at the heart of the successful Ohio QM Consortium.  Come experience how this statewide group welcomes institutions of all types and provides professional development, support, and leadership to drive innovation and initiate change. Participants will leave with strategies to build and strengthen partnerships with other institutions. 

Very few teacher preparation programs, even those offered online, have included instruction for teacher candidates to teach or design courses or lessons for K-12 online schooling. Recent state regulations in some states now require preservice teachers to have this training. Join us to find out how a professional development model was developed using badges and certificates to accomplish this requirement. 

The Colorado Community College System developed a set of QA standards based on the QM Rubric. Ensuring that system colleges implement the standards is a challenge due to differing college resources and other factors. A cross-college work group developed professional development resources to support college buy-in, create flexible opportunities for customization, and build momentum toward a robust system-wide QA implementation plan. We will showcase these PD resources, contextualizing them as milestones toward system goals.

Integrating QM Standards after courses are completed identifies issues too late - resulting in poorly designed courses that fall short of meeting both learner needs and QM standards. We will share proactive tools and strategies that introduce QM before Step 1 of content construction, discuss what your organization already does in this regard, and explore opportunities that will result in courses that better meet learner needs and QM Standards. Come learn and share what your organizations does to stay a step ahead!

Creating quality courses for online learning can be a challenge.  The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is offering a professional development opportunity called “Quality Courses by Design”. How does one get instructors to share with each other on course design?  By being students in an online course and sharing their lived experiences on teaching! 

Have you or your department been contemplating implementing a redesign process on your campus, but just don’t quite know where to start. In this session, we will share our approach, policy and lessons learned in implementing a redesign process for an accelerated online program. Participants will be able to takeaway ideas and strategies to implement their own redesign process to provide high quality courses within their institution. 

Making learning meaningful through real-world application is a hallmark of academic rigor. However, focusing on the importance of geographic location may neglect online learners, especially those who are remote. This session will provide actionable ideas to implement online teaching and learning strategies that enable students to apply their learning in meaningful ways to their communities, regardless of their physical location. 

This session will discuss a midsize community college's journey to incorporate common assessment across multi-section courses. We will cover the rationale and research behind using common assessments, the Communication Department's pilot project, and lessons learned from the school-wide roll-out. We will also discuss the logistics of documenting assessment data, tracking common assessment results, project examples, unforeseen benefits, achieving faculty buy-in, and frequently asked questions.

This poster describes a multi-year study about student perceptions of the importance of online course design elements revealing areas of challenge and opportunity for online learners. Students indicated three areas of high importance to their online course experience including course organization, communication, and grading/feedback, elements promoting fair and equal access to quality education. Takeaways include: two survey designs, top three important online design elements to students.

All too often, online course quality is determined by a course’s compliance with industry standards rather than consultation with actual students. In this presentation, we share a case study of student-driven quality assurance practices recently developed in a University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology.  Attendees will leave the session inspired to create their own student-driven quality assurance practices at their respective institutions.

Discover a simple way to start developing online courses with APPQMR, Backward Design, and Collaboration. Learn from our Course Development Program's successes and explore how you can implement APPQMR, ensure course materials align with course and module objectives by using Backward Design (or Course Mapping) with faculty and integrate collaboration in each step of the process. This session offers practical solutions for implementing an Online Course Development Program at your organization. 

The responsibility to create equitable spaces falls directly on faculty.  The talk will examine two projects where I am trying to equalize the equity gaps.  I will cover our methods for creating equitable spaces (whether online or in-person) and discuss the results from these projects.  I will also talk about future plans and share a link to my Zotero database that contains research on creating equitable courses. 

We are all looking for resources to transform the quality of our digital instruction in ways that are the most effective for learners. QM is definitely one of those ways! Join us as we discuss how the real transformers - teachers - can rely on their Transformer Traits (working for good of all, being flexible, and speaking the language) to grow their commitment to quality and fully invest in continuous improvement by serving as QM Course Representatives. 

Join us as we unravel the challenges obstructing effective online learning and introduce a transformative solution. Discover integrated strategies that prioritize learner wellness. Engage with the foundations that inform our comprehensive design. Prepare to be enlightened by the compelling results, which reveal enhanced self-awareness, affective regulation, and coping mechanisms. It's an opportunity to participate in meaningful change that you won't want to miss!

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Want an interactive, accessible, and equitable way to engage your learners? Try UDL projects! We’ll share multiple ways that learners can demonstrate mastery of concepts with project-based learning. We’ll show examples of UDL projects and feedback from students on how they were better able to integrate the concepts by creating meaning and producing artifacts. No matter the length or subject matter of your class, you can apply UDL to provide opportunities for deep, transformative learning. 

This presentation will review how we used findings from a qualitative study on perspectives of faculty and students in courses changed from QM training to guide future training. We will discuss the 22 participant study including data collection and analysis. A theme that emerged showed that both students and faculty found improvement in organization, instructions, and engagement in the courses changed by QM training. 

Online learning was once viewed as an educational “alternative”- but attitudes may be shifting. Are there benefits to online learning that exceed face-to-face courses? This poster shares results from a qualitative study with online instructors who discussed perceptions of the benefits unique to learning online. The analysis includes ways in which instructors’ perceptions varied based on years of teaching experience. Results provide insights for faculty development and course design.

This fast-paced session explores moonshot thinking, innovative environments, and overcoming challenges. You are invited to share your QM story in 3 minutes or less! We will discuss your QM Moonshot and determine where in the stars you landed - from stellar successes to failures that resulted in data (rapid unscheduled disassembly) and everything in between! Observers are also welcome!