Are you daring to provide dual-credit courses? Designing a dual-credit course doesn't have to be daunting. Learn the design elements that are shared between both higher education and K-12 courses, and explore what needs to be included to facilitate student success at both levels. Learn what QM recommends for course reviews, both formal and informal, and take a look at what some school districts are doing to make it happen. Think your course is ready? Bring it if you dare!
How can online instructors maximize the power of digital tools to cultivate QM Standards 5.2 and 6.2 for student engagement and active learning in an engaging online learning experience? We will peruse the digital tool buffet and sample a collection of tools just right for cultivating QM Standards 5.2 and 6.2 for the online course! We will start with an "appetizer" of general strategies, move to an "entree" of digital tools, and end with a sweet "dessert" application to our own online courses.
This presentation takes you through the 3 strategies used by the University of South Florida's Digital Learning department to introduce instructors to the Quality Matters review process and shows our central product, the Instructor Resource Center.
In this session, we will review key findings from the EDUCAUSE 2025 AI Landscape Research study, including some year-over-year comparisons to findings in the 2024 study. Topic areas include institutional strategy and leadership, workforce impacts, current use of AI for learning and work, and expectations for the future.
The assumption that better student performance data invariably leads to improved student outcomes does not, unfortunately, hold true in many schools and colleges. Often, many challenges get in the way of improving student outcomes. There are specific challenges in using data to empower teaching effectiveness on an ongoing basis. Getting the right insight at the right time from data requires a commitment to both informational and organizational change. This presentation explores some lessons learned from our experience.
Are your workforce program’s learning outcomes and curriculum relevant to today’s employer’s needs? Are your faculty and administrators aware of the current industry and workforce trends? Workforce program aligned advisory councils can help answer these questions. Their purpose is to support workforce program quality assurance. Learn how to form, facilitate and use academic program advisory councils.
In this session, we will highlight how the QM K12 Rubric can be used to support instructional coaching in an asynchronous virtual program. We will provide examples of how the rubric's annotations for K-5 courses can guide teachers in creating effective content. We will also discuss how coaches can use the rubric to provide constructive feedback that improves teacher efficacy and student achievement.
Are you unsure how QM professional development can help your institution achieve its quality assurance (QA) efforts? Would it be helpful to have faculty complete online, virtual, or face-to-face workshops? Do you want a QM Facilitator or someone from your institution to facilitate? Whether you are just getting started or have most faculty trained in the APPQMR, come learn from community members how QM professional development helped take their QA to the next level.
Despite two decades of rumors to the contrary, email is here to stay and it is a mainstay of distance and blended learning. Jason will discuss basic email strategy, and easy-to-adopt strategies to make your emails receive more attention and keep communication professional and productive.
Discover how one district reimagined faculty professional development by embedding instructional design best practices—without the jargon. Learn how workshops modeled quality teaching principles through hands-on, reflective experiences, boosting engagement and confidence among faculty. This session shares practical strategies for fostering meaningful growth by focusing on experience over imposition.
We are revolutionizing professional development for part time faculty! Come see how we transformed a 32 week program, specific to our part time faculty, to shortened terms of 8 weeks. We achieved a 70% increase in completions and improved learner success.
How can teacher professional development drive student success in virtual schools? This session shares how North Carolina Virtual Public School embedded SEL into educator learning, centering self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Discover how empowering teachers with these competencies builds more connected, supportive, and effective virtual classrooms.
The purpose of the current study is to collect pre- and post-experiential data on the student’s perceptions of using emerging technologies in 2 online courses. We examined the student’s previous online experiences or expectations of an online course and compared that with their experiences in the courses that will use emerging technologies. The intent is to measure whether or not these technologies improved student engagement.
This enlightening session is dedicated to maximizing accessibility and equity in education through the strategic utilization of Learning Management System (LMS) features. Together, we'll delve into the core principles of inclusive design, identifying common accommodations outlined in Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Through practical demonstrations and discussions, we'll explore innovative strategies for seamlessly integrating these accommodations into course design using the built-in features of the most prevalent LMS platforms.
Our small institution is working to certify 50+ courses by Fall 2026. Due to early challenges of course consistency, we implemented a collaborative development process, faculty training, & templates, that improved online courses. This presentation will showcase scalability with strategies for achieving online course consistency in resource-limited institutions. Attendees will identify cooperative approaches & processes and view useful tools & templates to achieve QM course reviews.
