Conference Presentations

Learn from our experiences and walk away with a clear picture of how blended learning with online teachers is successfully meeting the needs of students across an entire state.

Quality is perceived as intrinsically connected to cost and access, as defined in the eternal triangle concept; that is, an increase on one side of the triangle necessitates adjustments in the other two with at least one of those being decreased. The Iron Triangle has been related to education in that increasing quality of education increases cost and therefore would greatly reduce access to education. Technology is suggested as a way to break, or at least add flexibility to the iron triangle. But, from whose viewpoint and how?

Join us on a visual journey to expand possibilities in creative thinking, overcoming functional fixedness, and managing change to support self-efficacy in innovating the tools we use, tasks we assign, and ways we interact to prepare our students and ourselves for the inevitable gift that is change.

Who leads quality assurance on a daily basis? Our instructional designers pursue quality using an innovative, collaborative approach to course development. Strike a balance giving feedback on design guidelines without dampening faculty creativity.

Who leads quality assurance on a daily basis? Our instructional designers pursue quality using an innovative, collaborative approach to course development. Strike a balance giving feedback on design guidelines without dampening faculty creativity.
 

While public perception of AI remains mixed, AI continues to impact education, offering limitless potential to augment course development. Effectively harnessing AI as a creative and collaborative partner in course design requires critical reflection on prompting, correspondence, and tool selection. This interactive discussion focuses on “raging with the machine,” embracing AI in course design, and sharing practical insights for leveraging AI strategically.

Is your institution ready to launch a quality online program?  Do you need ideas to “break through” faculty disinterest or inertia with respect to QM?   Then this session is for you!  Come along on a “tour” of one institution’s journey to quality, what we are learning along to way, and how we are embracing the challenges we know are yet to come. 

In the late 1980s an industrial fabricator, 3D Systems, produced three-dimensional models that became working prototypes of final products. In the world of instructional design, Rapid Prototyping has given us insights into a faster course creation process while retaining a quality instructional design methodology. By using the Quality Matters Rubric as a guide for the prototype, quality course design can be “baked-in” the end result. With the research-based practices in the course prototype, it is easier to create a quality course.

As educators, we commit to high quality standards when designing online courses. Join us for a presentation on incorporating alignment of Standards 2, 3, and 4 in the development of your online courses. We will share and discuss creative course design strategies to meet these standards.

Abraham Lincoln once stated, “When I read aloud, two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I can remember it better.”  Expanding on Lincoln's idea, ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology incorporates more than you seeing and hearing your material. Our suite of tools perfectly fit Universal Design for Learning: the WHAT of learning, the HOW of learning, and the WHY of learning.

Come to this active learning session to develop a model for an ID internship program at your own institution. Internships help professionalize the ID career while simultaneously benefitting the hosting organization.

What if you found out you were making all of your important decisions based on flawed perceptions? Empower successful online learning experiences by implementing an action research model at your organization that informs solutions that work.

Heard about "HyFlex" but not sure what it is? Bring your questions to this session, where we'll highlight some HyFlex-related research, discuss HyFlex design & teaching practices, & hear from a professor who's been teaching HyFlex courses for years.

Evangeline Varonis, The University of Akron

Jillian Jevack, Quality Matters

Michael Johanyak, The Univesity of Akron

How can collages, purposeful flaws, and no-win scenarios make over your engagement levels? Learn the subtle art of embedding microchallenge ingredients throughout your course to whet your students’ appetite and keep them coming back for more.

This session will take the format of a panel discussion framed by Gay's (2010) six attributes of culturally responsive teaching. The five-member panel will provide concrete examples of online instructional design and subsequent delivery practices that are reflective of Gay's six attributes of culturally responsive learning environments being validating, comprehensive, multi-dimensional, empowering, transformative, and emancipatory.

What does the term hybrid mean to you? Has it changed in the last year? We developed a new blended format that draws upon best practices for face-to-face, online, and the virtual classroom. Come join us to discover how Hybrid can be new for you too!