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Learning-Centered Professional Development: Master Online Instructor Certification

Join us to learn from faculty members in multiple disciplines about a unique set of state system-designed courses, how they can improve face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses, and how they lead to Certification.

Developed by instructional designers across the Virginia Community College System, the course prepare faculty for teaching and designing online courses. Courses are focused on developing the faculty members’ use of the QM HE Rubric. Come learn how we improved online teaching and learning in our colleges.

Less Content, More Application: Rising to Meet the Challenge of ChatGPT

Given what we know about what ChatGPT and other AI tools can—and cannot—do, as educators we must confront two very different issues: First, what should we be teaching our students to prepare them for a world in which they are likely to be using AI tools? Second, how do we assess what students have learned when ChatGPT provides an exceptionally helpful resource for cheating?

Letting the Elephant Out of the Closet! Quality Matters! Building a Culture of Quality Course Review and Linking to Student Success

 

This poster session will cover a 2015-2016 pilot in which 9 California State University campuses participated to establish formal course reviews through a CSU cadre of certified reviewers. Feedback from coordinators, instructors, and peer-reviewers, as well as recognition strategies and a student feedback instrument will be shared. Additionally, two campuses, San José State and Fresno State will share their activities to train and support faculty in preparing their courses for formal certification.

Leveling Up Learning: Exploring Gamification with IDLA

Looking to level up your teaching game? Join us for a session on gamification in education and discover how to increase student motivation and engagement through the power of game mechanics. Learn about successful examples of gamification, gain practical design strategies and tools, and explore the potential of gamification to enhance student learning outcomes. Join IDLA teachers and developers to explore the power of gamification and take your teaching to the next level! 

Leveraging Course Health Analytics to Prioritize Course Enhancements that Drive Student Success

ASU Online offers thousands of online courses a semester with a goal of ongoing course enhancement. This presentation will provide recommendations on how to leverage institutional and course data to identify key course health indicators in online courses and prioritize them in ways that ensure ongoing course improvement. Dashboards with examples will be shared along with a customizable process to identify and prioritize enhancements for online courses at scale.

Leveraging Rubrics to Increase Alignment and Outcomes

Creating a perfect rubric is elusive.  Writing a good rubric is challenging.  Developing a meaningful rubric is critical.  This workshop focuses on expanding rubrics in the course development and evaluation process into a powerful teaching and evaluation tool.  We will look at various types of rubrics and build on experiences of participants to construct rubrics which can be easily modified to make a consistent grading tool and connect assignments to objectives.  The workshop will then identify simple tactics which can leverage rubric criteria to strengthen fundamen

Lights Camera Action: What Happens to Accessibility When the Course Goes Live?

Students’ learning needs are not monolithic and have posited that inclusivity in online education should be multi-dimensional in order to break away from a one-size-fits-all model (Clow & Kolomitro, 2018).  Therefore, we need to rethink the QM rubric to be inclusive of the course delivery component vs only looking at the design. Moreover, Hollingshead and Carr-Chellman (2019) argued that as a result of the change in student demographics, there is an amplified need to create opportunities for student engagement through instruction and instructional design utilizing UDL.

Lights, Camera, Action: What Happens to Accessibility When the Course Goes Live?

Students’ learning needs are not monolithic and have posited that inclusivity in online education should be multi-dimensional in order to break away from a one-size-fits-all model (Clow & Kolomitro, 2018).  Therefore, we need to rethink the QM rubric to be inclusive of the course delivery component vs only looking at the design. Moreover, Hollingshead and Carr-Chellman (2019) argued that as a result of the change in student demographics, there is an amplified need to create opportunities for student engagement through instruction and instructional design utilizing UDL.

Looking at the Impact of Quality Matters' Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Training: An Insider's Perspective

Have you attended the APPQMR workshop? Have you applied QM Standards in your own courses? If not, come and hear about the insider's secret regarding the workshop and their perspectives about QM Standards and the benefits of QM. If you have, come and share your experience with others who are passionate about QM. The presenters are eager to share the results of a study on the impact of APPQMR training with you.