Conference Presentations

This interactive session will focus on the University of Northern Iowa Online Course Development Award process of implementing Quality Matters and the partnership between faculty and instructional developer. The partnership is a foundation for thinking about and applying the course design principles of the QM Rubric.

Listen to how two business professors have merged tools supplied by their Learning Management System (LMS) together with publisher teaching assets to achieve QM Standard 4.5 - “A variety of instructional materials is used in the course.” This Standard requires us to sort through instructional technology tools to use in our courses.  In this poster session, we will explain Course Learning Objectives (CLOs) in introductory Economics and Marketing classes, and link them to QM Standard 6.1.

Are you interested in meeting QM Standard 8.3 by improving the accessibility of your course syllabus? Join me for this hands-on session where we'll explore the accessibility features in Microsoft Word.   You'll have plenty of practice time during the session, so please bring your own computer.  Included for your information is a link to WA SBCTC's Access 101: Introduction to Accessibility Training Course Materials

Take a five-minute break from the serious! Enjoy this whimsical reflection about how QM Standards taught an "old" ID a few new tricks. A lyrical, light-hearted recap from an experienced instructional designer after completing the APPQMR workshop, this session is guaranteed to put a smile on your face!

This session will introduce easy-to-implement discussion strategies to increase engagement. It will explore online debate, effective ice breakers, scenario-based learning, and multimedia discussions. Templates and examples will be provided.

In universities with a large focus on research, it can be difficult to get faculty to concentrate on the teaching that occurs in their classrooms, and it is even more difficult to get them to look at the quality of their online courses.  This session will focus on ideas that need your time, meeting spaces, online communities, and, hopefully, a Quality Matters subscription, but very little financial investment on the part of your department.

Creating an online course that is accessible to diverse learners can be challenging.  This session explains the what, why, and how of providing all students access to content and activities so they can easily navigate and interact with online course modules.

Come see what Laredo Community College is doing to gain faculty buy-in when tasked with having to design/redesign their online/hybrid courses using the Quality Matters Rubric.

Finding ways to increase faculty collaboration for the QM course review process is invaluable.

Management of online programs? Revenue generation? Resource allocation? The faculty role? Quality certification? Stability versus innovation? Where does your institution fit? A review of CHLOE 2017 and 2018 results sheds light on prevailing patterns and trends.

Metacognition plays an important role in student achievement and retention of knowledge. See examples and ask questions about how the QM Rubric steers use of asynchronous interaction to measure student engagement, facilitator coaching, and assessment strategies of K-12 metacognition.

As those of us well versed in QM know, the primary focus of the rubric is design. While quality design is an essential component of a quality online program, it is not the only component required to achieve overall quality assurance. Those of us who have taken the APPQMR would also recognize the pie image that is a trademark training piece of this workshop. While participants of the APPQMR are made aware of the fact that QM does not try to address all pieces of the pie, they are often hear about how the other pieces could be effectively addressed.

This is a 5 minute Quality Talk Presentation over an initiative to standardize departmental policies and practices as they relate to online education. The slides are mostly cut and pastes from our policy document.

There are many things that both faculty and instructional designers do that help improve the quality of course design. In this session, we will investigate those hidden tasks and discuss how both faculty and instructional designers can work together.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to . . .

Document the various tasks that are related to designing a course.

Evaluate the possible interactions between faculty and instructional designers to design a course.

Discover a tool that streamlines curriculum development while also ensuring QM alignment. Use it with your team to create, update, analyze, and make informed decisions about curricula that meet QM Standards. Bring a laptop and your curriculum components to apply the tool or watch an example.

This introduction to easily implemented, accessible design strategies will help you meet the needs of students with disabilities and improve the user experience for all students by making smart decisions about headings, font style and size, white space, and contrast.

Participants examine resistance to online teaching, quality assurance, and course development; learn effective ways to address perceived barriers; and identify approaches to engage diverse faculty in a campus-wide QM Community of Practice on their campuses.

Quality Matters certification ensures high standards for online courses. However, what if the institution is unable to financially afford certification for all online courses? The panel shares the story of how one college created an internal review process based on QM.

Participants will learn about our institution's Affordability Counts program and how it has impacted course material cost in our courses. Let’s discuss how to design your course with both cost and quality in mind, and the resources at your disposal.

Co-presenter: Maikel Alendy

The Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) gathered leading CBE program designers and experts in accreditation and quality assessment to create the Quality Standards for Competency-Based Programs.  Join some of these experts to learn about the Standards and how to apply them in a CBE program.