Conference Presentations

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?

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.

This presentation will tackle the university’s attempt to adopt selected QM Standards on F2F academic programs.

In this session, you will learn how our institution utilizes the QM Self-Review tool option in preparation for QM-managed reviews.  The Online Course Development Program (OCDP) encourages and accelerates the development of quality online programs that align with our university's strategic priorities. The OCDP is offered three times a year and faculty participate as a cohort. Each cohort will work in the semester prior and develop online courses for the following semester. The estimated time commitment for the OCDP is roughly 60 hours a semester.

Join two instructional designers from different states in a conversation about how to coach learners of all ages on the use of age-appropriate meta-cognition in highly interactive asynchronous discussion boards. Innovative "best practices" will be sought and incorporated into the conversation to facilitate real-time dialogue.

The purpose of this research was to assess large online course design based on the QM Higher Education Rubric Standards from a student perspective. Students were surveyed based on the Specific Standards within the Rubric. Students were asked to provide feedback on the Specific Standards by rating whether the Standard was not met, was met, or exceeded all expectations. The goal was to improve the course design and teaching within the course.

Presenters:

Brett Christie & Ashley Skylar (California State University System); Elizabeth McMahon (Minnesota Online Quality Initiative);  Steve Kaufman, University of Akron & Bethany Simunich, Kent State (The Ohio QM Consortium)

Facilitator:  Kay Shattuck, Quality Matters 

Via short presentations from three statewide systems:

•Identify similarities and differences among systems that might influence inputs, outputs, and outcomes

Data on QM implementation: statewide systems have a lot of it. See how data needs are determined by their desired outcomes, what is collected and tracked - and how. Leave with plans for your own system's meaningful data collection.

Presenters:  Brett Christie & Ashley Skylar (California State University System);  Elizabeth McMahon (Minnesota Online Quality Initiative);  Steve Kaufman, University of Akron & Bethany Simunich, Kent State (The Ohio QM Consortium);  Facilitator: Kay Shattuck, Quality Matters

QM Tackles Competency Based-Learning

We will examine schematics on QM impact and determine how they can be applied.

We will provide tools (handouts) on various ways to examine QM impact

Continuous improvements is a cornerstone of QM. If you've ever wondered how QM determines how and when to roll out new workshops, a new certification, recertify roles or update professional development workshops, come to this session for a "look behind the scenes" of how QM ensures quality. HOw does QM measure success when new ventures liek web conferencing workshops are created? Why does QM ask facilitators to recertifity?

Quality Matters is beginning to address other aspects of the quality online learning experience. The new Teaching Online Certificate from Quality Matters is built on validated online instructor competencies and includes a series of seven workshops. Instructors who complete the workshops will build a portfolio of evidence of their online teaching competence, culminating with the award of the Online Teaching Certificate upon completion of all seven workshops. Each workshop completion is recognized with a digital credential that is connected to evidence of competence.

This session will discuss an ongoing QM research project on the phases institutions move through in their goal of implementing the quality assurance facets of QM. Come hear the results of the pilot study and provide critical feedback to reflect and enhance your own institutional path and goals.

This presentation will tackle the university's attempt to adopt selected QM Standards for F2F academic programs. It will address (a) background, (b) the eLearning pilot project,  (c)  eCourse design and development templates, (d) leadership support, (e) results and samples, and (f) achievements and future plans.

Course design is at the front and center of online learning yet it is the least developed aspect of online learning pedagogy. Between the continued growth of distance learning enrollments and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for quality course design is essential to student success and completion and is critical to the sustainability of community colleges. This session will highlight one community college's efforts to progressively implement QM specific review standards in an effort to increase course completion rates.