In this session, participants will gain hands-on familiarity with an innovative program assessment process that has been shown to be effective for implementing meaningful, iterative assessment and in building faculty buy-in for assessment in large, multi-campus, online programs. Participants will leave the session with specific ideas for improving quality assurance processes at their institutions and for making assessment more engaging for faculty.
Are your learning objectives not quite feeling right? Perhaps you have some fake objectives? Or maybe the alignment is upside down? Let us help you identify topics, assessments, activities, and instructional materials masquerading as objectives and evaluate upside-down alignment.
Grab your accreditation surfboard and ride the wave to QM implementation with us! From the experience of a mid-size, underfunded state institution, hear how QM has become a beacon of quality assurance across the university.
Walk around the edge of the QM Research pool to see what it looks like - and then dive in for a true understanding of what's under the surface. Get comfortable in the water so you can take a dip whenever you like.
This session will focus on design & delivery techniques to better gather and use feedback in your online class. We'll cover: 1) individual feedback ideas for engagement and connection, 2) time-saving ideas for group feedback and auto-feedback, 3) soliciting feedback for continous improvement, and 4) using the feedback loop for "just-in-time" online teaching strategies.
To promote compliance with accessibility mandates, we developed a workflow to provide timely, accurate and cost-effective closed captioning for instructional materials. We share details about this process, and data about significant benefits of the captioning for ALL students.
Wouldn't it be great to be a new college? Distance learning courses, proactively designed from scratch to meet accessibility standards, would eliminate terms like "legacy course" and "faculty buy-in". Imagine a world where WCAG did not require a Google search on acronyms.
Trying to determine what professional development (PD) opportunities best meet faculty and staff needs? This session can help! Join QM's Senior Manager of PD and a Dean of eLearning + QM Coordinator with a wealth of experience in this area as they guide you through: the different pathways available for QM professional development, how QM PD can aid your implementation journey and support your goals, and how to choose the right PD (at the right time) for your faculty and staff needs.
Adoption of QM can be challenging in smaller, private institutions, which value academic freedom. A potential untapped leverage is in health science programs. We will discuss an institution initiative, successes and strategies to increase adoption.
Are you fully utilizing QM reporting tools? Let's discuss how to use standard and customizable QM reporting tools to keep track of professional development, course reviews, and QM role holders to support and evaluate your implementation efforts.
For many faculty members, the very thought of teaching online raises alarms and defenses. However, even in seated classes in today's world, we can all benefit from learning and instituting the principals of quality online course design. A team consisting of a Director of Online Learning and two faculty members will lead this fun discussion that will help rescue and respect faculty prone to resist. This session is aimed at anyone who can have an impact on faculty members in higher education.
Research shows that a higher intensity of engagement leads to greater performance in online classes. But how can we verify this at our own institutions? What types of data can support this research and how do we access it?
Alamo Colleges Online has undertaken significant efforts to ensure quality in online course design. This proposal highlights our initiatives over the past four years, including faculty training, course certifications, district policy updates and enhancements, and the implementation of AI technology to enhance efficiency. Attendees will learn about our strategies, the importance of faculty engagement, and the innovative use of AI to scale our quality assurance processes.
Have you ever found yourself writing the exact same comment on every assignment submitted by the same student throughout the semester? Let's talk about it and how we can create effective feedback and get students to use it!
This session will present the WeTeach program, a model proven to be successful to engage faculty in a voluntary program supporting course design and integrating QM Standards. The program includes a flexible model with multiple delivery methods that address faculty's needs with personalized custom attention. This session will showcase the program's structure, project management tools and strategies, campus communication and promotion, and a brief overview of content topics.
