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ReadSpeaker: Accessibility Tools Supporting YOU and YOUR students

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.

Reconstructing the Table: Designing Culturally Affirming Online Learning Communities at an HBCU Through Quality Matters

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.

Reengage the Digital Learner

Due to the misfortune of the current pandemic, obtaining student engagement has become an extremely difficult endeavor. So how do we cope when our once effective delivery methods are no longer keeping our students engaged? Considering how the pedagogy relates to the student experience during this pandemic, is extremely important in the process of developing opportunities to transform passive encounters to active and meaningful experiences.

Reframing Blended Assumptions: Making Decisions about Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Delivery

Typically, decisions guiding blended instruction were framed by considering what content could be moved online using well developed training and support tools.  However, the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly shifted everything online. Instead of substituting established online approaches, some faculty began “remote instruction,” holding hours-long, large scale, online synchronous classes.  This model met with mixed but mostly negative reactions from students.

Reframing Blended Assumptions: Making Decisions about Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Delivery

Typically, decisions guiding blended instruction were framed by considering what content could be moved online using well developed training and support tools.  However, the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly shifted everything online. Instead of substituting established online approaches, some faculty began “remote instruction,” holding hours-long, large scale, online synchronous classes.  This model met with mixed but mostly negative reactions from students.

Regular and Substantive Interaction: Does Standard 5.2 Need an Update?

What is regular and substantive interaction, anyhow? The Department of Education doesn’t provide a clear answer, but it is an important compliance question. Specific Review Standard 5.2 discusses *opportunities* for learner-instructor interaction, but Indiana University wanted more. Recognizing that compliance is part of quality assurance, our academic leadership asked us to create a QM-style “interaction standard.”

In this presentation, we cover the following:

  1. What is interaction?

Reimagine an On-Campus/Classroom Course with Digital Storytelling & Blended Learning!

The presenters, Denise Kreiger and Sharon Stoerger, School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, discuss a newly designed course project where students construct digital stories about hashtag activism movements using the Storify technology tool. This project extends the large-lecture hall classroom through an "online component" in an LMS to create a substantial blended learning environment.

Reimagine an On-Campus/Classroom Course with Digital Storytelling & Blended Learning!

The presenters, Denise Kreiger and Sharon Stoerger, will discuss a newly designed course project where students construct digital stories about hashtag activism movements using the Storify technology tool. This project extends the large-lecture hall classroom through an "online component" in an LMS to create a substantial blended learning environment. It provides students with an engaging, inquiry-based authentic learning experience that integrates QM standards 2-6 and can be implemented in any delivery format: face-to-face/web-enhanced, hybrid/blended, or online courses.

Reimagine, Revamp, Repeat: A Journey Through a Program Revision Process Guided by QM

Have you or your department been contemplating implementing a redesign process on your campus, but just don’t quite know where to start. In this session, we will share our approach, policy and lessons learned in implementing a redesign process for an accelerated online program. Participants will be able to takeaway ideas and strategies to implement their own redesign process to provide high quality courses within their institution.

Reimagine, Revamp, Repeat: A Journey Through a Program Revision Process Guided by QM

Have you or your department been contemplating implementing a redesign process on your campus, but just don’t quite know where to start. In this session, we will share our approach, policy and lessons learned in implementing a redesign process for an accelerated online program. Participants will be able to takeaway ideas and strategies to implement their own redesign process to provide high quality courses within their institution. 

Remember the QMCs!

We're all about continuous improvement!  How can QM serve you more effectively?  QM Coordinators are invited to attend this interactive session to learn about and discuss new and planned enhancements to subscriber tools, processes and resources.  The session is an opportunity to share your ideas directly with QM leaders responsible for implementation.