As part of the Quality Talks, this session focuses on quality assessment from the beginning, by way of stressing the importance of well designed competency maps of each program/concentration. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: Describe the relationship between curriculum mapping and assessment as it applies to quality assurance of program content.
Cartographers can't have all the fun! Learn and better understand how alignment starts and stops with the clarity of curriculum maps and assessment tools to measure accuracy and drive continuous curricular improvement.
This Toolkit will be introduced during the session and feedback encouraged during and after the session. The aim is to provide a step-by-step plan for designing a study on the impact of Quality Matter, examples are provided. The Toolkit is a series of five modules in SoftChalk.
Between 2015 and 2017, UMB's Graduate School added 50 new online courses to its curriculum. This was accomplished with a very small support team (two IDs and a media specialist.) To meet our goal of having each course meet the essential QM Standards from the first delivery, the team created a system to build QM compliance into the course development process. By using a combination of templates and course design worksheets, we are able to coach our faculty through the basics of course alignment and learner engagement without lengthy faculty training workshops.
Throw away the cookie cutter course models! Let's examine the ingredients for collaboratively designed, QM integrated, centrally developed courses that include spices of quality, consistency, scalability, academic freedom, and unique teaching styles. The link to the Jeopardy questions
Before starting out on a new Quality Assurance program with faculty, be sure your online learning support team is trained! This session will cover how an institution new to Quality Matters started a new initiative for accelerated Master's Degree programs that incorporate a Quality Assurance check prior to going live. It is important online learning support staff (technology trainers, instructional technologists, and instructional designers) be well versed on the Quality Matters Rubric and Standards before starting this initiative.
Presenters will open with a discussion of the need for online learning support staff to have a common basis of knowledge as faculty who are designing to particular quality standards.
Open discussion of creating relationships based on achieving standards.
Attendees will leave with a customized approach and training structure to support the success of their instructional design support staff.
There are two main categories of quality in virtual education that have a profound effect on student outcomes - content and connection. The quality of relational connection between staff and students can make a huge impact on student outcomes. Join us as we bring some meaningful methods and tools for training and evaluating relational connection in a virtual educational environment.
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.
This Making a Difference for Students award recipient will share how her college went from the possibility of losing the ability to teach online to radical changes resulting in a strong program that ensures true quality in students’ online education.
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.
A person's experiences, background, and culture all influence how a student learns. This session addresses three approaches implemented in online courses at a HSI regional university to develop sense of belonging and enhance student relatedness.
Quality matters, but where does it begin? For a mid-western university, it begins with the design document. Bring a copy of your design document. You will have time to share, examine, and explore methods to improve its alignment with QM Standards.
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!
An academic health science center in the southern United States adopted Quality Matters in 2014, representing the first institutional partnership with Quality Matters in higher education in the state. Within the same calendar year, administrators were presented with a new development from campus administrators: the campus' legacy learning management system would be replaced with a new system. Could the eLearning group blend training on QM with the training on the new system? Six months later, an online course with 26 QM Standards was integrated into the self-paced online course.
In this session, we will review a process for converting to an open educational resource for a core course. We will highlight a timeline and tasks completed by a faculty committee to successfully implement the new course design. The new design aligned with the chosen open education resource, state TAG requirements and other project parameters. The faculty committee was awarded one of the University's Affordable Learning Grants for its work.
This presentation takes a trauma-informed approach to understanding and addressing student needs. Participants will identify how trauma may influence student behavior and indicate best practices to work effectively with students experiencing trauma.
Participants will be enrolled in a middle school online introductory unit and participate in an online treasure hunt. They will work through adaptive scenarios to discover the tools needed to ultimately find the hidden treasure and unlock the key to online learning.
Failure is not an option right . . . well, actually it is! Learning from my mistakes has been an integral part of my current success managing our system-wide Quality Matters program. In this session I'll share the mistakes I've made so participants don't have to make them too. I'll also offer some practical tips and solutions for managing a QM program that participants can apply today. Participants will share their program management challenges, receive feedback from peers, and start writing an action plan.
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