Conference Presentations

QM’s Online Learner Support Criteria 1 addresses the presence of “Direct and indirect support for online learners and should include remote access to academic advising.”  In this poster session, we will share a unique Graduation Team Model wherein collaboration between academic advising and faculty members foster the creation of proactive strategies that provide an individualized best-fit (“glass slipper”) student support plan.

At many institutions, closed captioning in online courses is provided on an as-needed basis in response to an accommodation request. Given recent litigation, growing student diversity in higher education, and the potential benefits to all learners when instructors employ universal design methods, closed captioning should, in our estimation, be a standard feature in online courses.

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For many small universities, collecting, assessing, and applying information from QM course reviews can be equated to hunting for mythical creatures such as Bigfoot, Mothman, and the Gremlin. This presentation will explore cost effective and user friendly methods to make the hunt for these data analysis monsters more successful.

Demonstration of cost effective, user-friendly, and streamlined methods to capture the elusive data analysis monster. From arming your faculty with the tools they need, to forming alliances across campus, these methods are sure to aid your hunting party.

Metacognition plays an important role in student achievement and retention of knowledge. See examples and ask questions about how the QM Rubric steers use of asynchronous interaction to measure student engagement, facilitator coaching, and assessment strategies of K-12 metacognition.

Instructional design coaching is at the heart of a partnership between Gateway Community and Technical College and TiER1 Performance Solutions. Through this coaching model, Gateway faculty have received not only formal professional development but individualized coaching to guide them in the design of high quality online courses. The instructional design coaching model ensures faculty are applying foundational principles as well as incorporating problem-based learning into their course content.

Providing professional development for blended and online learning that creates the opportunity for connection and personalization is our goal. We recently launched our professional development model called Coffee and Course Design. In this session will share how our newest endeavor of providing an active learning space that enables the participants to connect, share, and design for their online or blended learning environment using Quality Matters as our framework while having coffee, donuts, and conversation with their colleagues.

Please see attached powerpoint for the poster session.

Learn how to initiate a collaborative self-evaluation process based on Quality Matters and accreditation standards that can result in the development of tools that form the basis for policies, procedures, and new online program development.

Aristotle once said, “Quality is not an act; it’s a habit.” The Ambassador, Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, has made quality a habit by prioritizing student feedback to deliver high-quality online courses and programs. ACCBE utilizes a collaborative, open-communication approach to set the stage for creating a culture of quality focused on continuous improvement and student success.

How many roadblocks have your students encountered? In our session, you will get to collaborate with your peers on common accessibility challenges and we will show you how ReadSpeaker's TTS solutions can assist with breaking thru these roadblocks.

This presentation will examine faculty satisfaction and perceived benefits of participation in communities of practice (CoP) for supporting online faculty. Faculty isolation and navigating the transition from face-to-face  to online teaching will be discussed. A brief presentation will be followed by a community brainstorming session to explore ways to sustain faculty buy-in, promote online pedagogical excellence, foster peer-to-peer community, and encourage continued improvement in online instruction.

Student's grades on assignment for an undergraduate nursing research course the academic year before QM certification were compared to grades the academic year after QM certification. Significant improvement was found in grades for research papers and posters. Changes made to the course will be described, study findings presented, and implications discussed.

Nursing faculty responsible for the Quality Assurance (QA) of one of our state’s largest online nursing programs will present a Quality Talk. Our question is “What is the difference in students’ scores before and after QM certification for the eight core courses of an online Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program?” We will use story-telling technique to share transformation of online courses into a complete QM certified program for registered nurses (RNs) earning a BSN.

This session focused on courses where the curriculum is mandated, either by state licensing requirements, testing requirements, or industry standards. It can be difficult to keep learners interested when course material must be geared to a test or licensing requirement - but it can be done! Methods for keeping learners engaged, encouraging learning, and achieving the results that learners want are the focus of this session.

Competency-based education (CBE) is getting a lot of attention. Defined by personalized learning and "authentic" assessment, advocates position CBE as a powerful toolkit to address some of higher education's biggest challenges- namely, high tuition, low completion and vague/uneven student outcomes. It could be argued that these challenges are relevant for "traditional" online learning, too. Amid the hype, what is truly distinctive about the new generation of CBE programs, and is CBE really a mainstream solution or a more specialized one?