The University of Mississippi Medical Center is leveraging its first QM certification in 2016 to scale across the institution. Through a cross-campus partnership, research-based metrics and processes are being developed using Kirkpatrick's four stage training model to pair digital credentialing with learning milestones achieved by QM faculty cohorts. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, the two-year project will empower the team to relay to administrators effective strategies for implementing future endeavors involving scale and behavioral change.
This session will examine the benefits/challenges of implementing the QM Rubric in online courses by way of a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) at CSU, East Bay campus. The faculty in the FLC come from a number of departments on campus (Anthropology, Communication, English, History, and Music).
Are there times when you find the prescriptive structure and processes of Quality Matters to be limiting? Do you want to know what Ernest Hemingway and Dr. Seuss have in common with QM? Join us for an interactive exploration of the unexpected freedom and creativity that can accompany constraint.
The QM Rubric is powerful and flexible. It is the balloon that can be flexed to many different forms and functions. How might the rubric be used beyond its original, intended purpose? Join this lively discussion of possibilities to find out.
TheInter-American Development Bank (IDB)has becomea leading source of financing of social and economical development in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. One special activity of the bank is its support to social and economic development in LAC through distance learning. The IDB has become a leader in professional development in LAC, capitalizing on the knowledge and experience of the Bank in the region.
QM dreams can become reality! I will share how my initiative at a small Catholic university created a positive impact for students. It included a strategy that made a university-wide impact. We will explore my strategy and how it could drive student success and quality assurance at your institution.
Over the spring and summer of 2013, QM conducted reviews of 14 basic college and pre-college (developmental) MOOCs funded by the Gates Foundation. This session will provide an analysis of the outcomes and discuss the implications. As these are the first reviews QM has conducted on MOOCs, they offer the first insight on whether such MOOCs can meet quality design standards, incorporate proven methods of effective online instruction, and be effective for different learners.
QM for Students enables you to integrate QM into your curriculum. Hear how your students can benefit from discounted subscriptions as part of the QM for Students program and how faculty can attain the new role of QM Coach.
Join the QM IDA Leadership Team for an overview of what the Quality Matters Instructional Designers Association is, an update on the past year's accomplishments, and plans for the coming year. Current and potential members are welcome to attend.
Besides student success and completion rates, what are the other areas in which QM has made an impact? What tools can extend the reach of QM's impact into the culture of an institution? How can you collect data using action research?
This session will focus on what students find important in the QM rubric to keep them engaged in their learning. Given that instructors cannot make their courses QM certified immediately, this session will provide course designers and faculty with insights and practices that they can apply to their online courses for improvements based on the QM rubric and identify the portions of the QM rubric students value to increase their engagement and perceived learning.
Come join Dr Deb Adair, QM's Executive Director, and Dr Yaping Gao, QM's Senior Academic Director of Programs and Services, to learn what initiatives QM has been involved with on the international front, and to share ideas on how QM can expand its impact and influence in non-English speaking regions. This session will also serve as the inauguration meeting for the iQM Association, a group of QM advocates with foreign language proficiency and cultural awareness. For those interested and qualified, it's not too late to join the iQM Association.
The new QM Continuing and Professional Education Rubric, developed in collaboration with the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), sets design standards for online and blended, non-credit, continuing and professional education courses, including MOOCs. This session will describe the development process, identify differences between the CPE Rubric and the QM Higher Ed Rubric, discuss the major categories of online and blended courses for which it is intended and report the experience of early adopters.
This presentation is designed for faculty, staff, and administrators relatively new to QM. A quick introduction of QM, how it works, what's in it for institutions, and how QM can support efforts to help students succeed.
This 50-minute session is designed for faculty, staff, and administrators relatively new to QM. Come join Dr Yaping Gao, QM's Senior Academic Director of Programs and Services, and Brenda Boyd, Director of Professional Development, for a quick introduction of QM, how it works, what's in it for institutions, and how QM can support efforts to help students succeed.
The acceptance and growth of QM's QA process is due, in part, to peer-to-peer review by qualified faculty peer reviewers? Why was this practice chosen in the first place? Has it achieved its original purposes? Where is it likely to go in the future? Join this session to find out and share your views.
