Quality Matters is an excellent foundation for online course design, but what happens after the QM review? Once the QM review is over, how is quality ensured? How does your institution determine when changes in a course warrant a new review? This session will demonstrate the processes at New Mexico State University Alamogordo used to ensure the quality of the QM approved courses and to ensure the integrity of master courses based on the QM guidelines. It will also include steps used to determine the need for a new review.
Discover how your institution can implement high-quality HyFlex courses to meet diverse student needs, particularly in the face of rising mental health challenges. We'll share how we developed a HyFlex model that integrates face-to-face, synchronous online via Zoom, and asynchronous online options, all aligned with QM Standards. This session will equip you with practical insights into our course development process, empowering you to create equitable learning experiences at your institution.
Objective alignment is essential in course design, yet, hard to understand. We strove to create a document showing alignment. The Course Alignment Matrix is now a primary tool in our QM courses and is used to show faculty how to achieve alignment.
The Student Experience Project identified seven learning conditions correlated to student retention and success, notably for historically-underrerpresented learners. These conditions include belonging certainty, identity safety, institutional growth mindset, and self-efficacy. Each is linked to pedagogical interventions that quantifiably raise retention and success. Data indicates that combining QM Standards with SEP strategies has greater impact for online learners than for F2F courses.
The Student Experience Project identified seven learning conditions correlated to student retention and success, notably for historically-underrerpresented learners. These conditions include belonging certainty, identity safety, institutional growth mindset, and self-efficacy. Each is linked to pedagogical interventions that quantifiably raise retention and success. Data indicates that combining QM standards with SEP strategies has greater impact for online learners than for F2F courses.
This enlightening session will delve into how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping education to promote equity and inclusivity for diverse learners. Explore a variety of AI-driven strategies, from generating alternative assignments and reducing answer choices to providing guided notes, adjusting reading levels, enabling language translation, crafting writing outlines, and generating quizzes from video transcripts.
This study explored how a DER about accessibility impacted faculty intentions to develop accessible online content. Addressing issues within online learning is crucial because inaccessible content excludes learners, hindering their educational experience. Takeaways: 1) DERs provide engaging and challenging experiences for participants, 2) Participant frustration fosters empathy towards learners with disabilities, and 3) Motivates faculty to create accessible online content.
The ESIL Lens is a tool to assess the depth of learning a student needs to reach. ESIL allows us to consider more than the cognitive load of the LO to design better and more realistic learning and assessment experiences for students.
Join us to learn how 2gnoMe ("To know me") platform for teachers facilitates large-scale, personalized professional learning, at scale, aligned to any required framework or set of standards. This session will elevate your practical understanding of ways to simplify what the districts are already doing to improve the teaching mastery and meet teacher retention goals. This session will be of interest to K-12 leaders, as well as content and training providers.
What do high schoolers REALLY think about online learning? WHRO has established a Student Advisory Board to elevate student choice and voice in our online courses and digital learning products. By attending this session, you will discover how you can engage students in the online course creation and evaluation process. You will walk away with ideas to help you connect with your target audience of all ages. Learning Outcome: Discover ways to engage students in the online content creation and review process.
This presentation will describe how Quality Matters is being used as the framework for an online course improvement summer institute. You will hear from the institute organizers and faculty who have completed the program concerning best practices in online course design, as well as how QM was implemented in the curriculum of the institute. The three-week process found participants designing or revising their online or blended courses in preparation for an informal Quality Matters course review.
Hear encouraging words from educators, get positive advice from national experts, gain proof of making a successful course! We share our approach to obtaining a Quality Matters first while improving engagement and usability for students.
Is your curriculum team assessing potential new courses, authoring your own, or reviewing existing content for updates? Our Course Planning, Design, and Review Tool can help! WVS created this tool in Google Sheets to help initially vet a mix of vendor, national, and local content. Participants will be invited to share their experiences with online course quality evaluation (all stages of this journey welcome!) as well.
We'll share a large research university's journey to micro-credentialing. Quality assurance has been a catalyst for cross-departmental conversations and planning of bite-sized online learning modules, digital badges and co-curricular transcripts.
Wouldn’t you love students to follow your online course as closely as sports fans follow their favorite teams? Learn strategies and tools used by sportscasters that online instructors can use to increase student engagement.
California State University, East Bay started a Quality Assurance (QA) Initiative in Spring 2015. Since it's inception, we have certified over 200 courses through Quality Matters. We've had 21 faculty cohorts participate in a grant to receive QM training facilitated by California State University, East Bay eLearning Specialists. These accomplishments have raised an important research question: how do we demonstrate that QA initiative has contributed to student success on our campus?
How do we explain a "best case" example for 1.2? Or what if an instructor doesn't really know what we mean by standard 8.1, "Course navigation facilitates ease of use"? Consider how having a repository of examples might help faculty to better understand, reflect on, and implement QM standards? Join us as we look at how one was built and what we've learned while doing so.
SME Interviewing is a simple technique that supports the transformation of good course design to an exceptional one. Learn, practice, and apply this discovery-phase technique to achieve a memorable, meaningful impact for learners.
This presentation discusses phase 1 of a two-phase Mixed Methods research study focused on evaluating the effects of the APPQMR workshop. Three variables were measured: 1) knowledge of best practice in online course design (KBP), 2) instructor perception of online course quality (IPQ), and 3) willingness to use the QM rubric to redesign an online course (W). The dependent variable KBP was measured using a criterion-based instrument developed by the researcher, a certified Quality Matters peer reviewer and Instructional Design Specialist.
