Learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how you can apply seven specific usability hacks to determine quickly whether any online course meets General Standard 8: Accessibility & Usability—especially if you're not an accessibility expert.
Physical Education is a particularly challenging course to design in a fully-online K-12 environment. Although several national and state-run programs offer the course, each has a unique take on how to ensure students engage with the course material and achieve a healthier lifestyle through exercise. The solution for one program, a statewide virtual school in the Midwest, is to use fitness trackers. The use of fitness trackers has allowed for increased student engagement and new opportunities for student/student and student/instructor interaction.
In the Office of e-Learning (OeL), we celebrate the success of faculty and staff members who effectively participate in OeL professional development with digital badges. In this interactive session, learn how to strategically align a digital badging initiative to Quality Matters Standards!
The presenters and attendees will discuss ways to highlight quality online courses at their institutions. The presenters will share the development of their Online Course Showcase. We will discuss the selection process of QM-certified and other well-designed online courses for public display. Factors such as subject, design strategies, content presentation, assessment type, target audience, access, and accessibility were considered.
Simple practices make it easier for course designers to create student content use. Use Grackle on documents for accessibility and quick revisions. Learn to design courses with the common thread of improving navigation and usability within the LMS.
Faculty often struggle with how to begin to evaluate alignment in their existing courses. This presentation demonstrates simple tools that any faculty can use when aligning course objectives, unit objectives, and course activities.
You don't want to miss this hands-on, interactive session that enables you to experience simulation learning tools that successfully promotes the accomplishment of course objectives and the improvement of a learner's interaction with the course content.
The amount of information about accessible digital content can be overwhelming. Our panel of higher educators will give you practical tips about slowing the fire hose when your institution is just getting started with accessibility.
In this presentation, we will give you actionable ways to create a more inclusive online course by using language and images that include all learners. We will share examples of student feedback from our courses, workshop examples of updating course language to be more inclusive, and discuss the why behind the changes.
This active learning session shares best practices in facilitating collaborative learning to engage students in various online learning courses. The topics include: effective group management strategies, applying authentic contexts to motivate students, and assessment strategies to measure student achievement of learning outcomes, while assuring student accountability and fair assessment practices. Examples of using AI-assisted grading tools to integrate timely feedback and RSI will be shared.
Quality matters in higher education, but what if your Teaching and Learning Center does not have the resources needed to address today’s teaching and learning needs? You get creative! Come learn how one community college reinvented faculty development, creating a new plan for quality assurance.
Leverage the features in your LMS to meet QM standards on an institutional level allowing faculty to focus on the content standards. An instructional designer, division leadership, faculty from Humanities, Math, and Health Sciences will explain how a college wide approach to meeting standards is saving faculty course representatives time and creating a consistent user experience for all students college wide.
The presentation will focus on enhancing videos in online courses to impact student achievement and overall course quality. Tools and processes to easily enhance course videos will be demonstrated along with our experience in creating such videos.
Which would you rather have? A great teacher with no industry experience? Or a solid industry expert with no teaching experience? At our top-five public university, we'll take the industry expert with that 423-page PPT every single time. Think about it - who would you take?
What do a Program Director, Director of e-Learning, and Adjunct Professor have in common? A commitment to adjunct instructor success! Examine how to use QM Rubric Standards, professional development, and networks of support to ensure your adjunct faculty soar…and come back for more!
Join us for a discussion of how social media marketing and communications strategies can be used in an academic environment towards a successful implementation of Quality Matters. We will explore the use of Google+ WordPress, and Twitter and discuss how to build a dedicated academic community.
What do you do when your math courses are your lowest-performing courses AND are inaccessible? Do you rewrite them? Do you remediate them? Do you focus on instructor training? This session will show you how to do all of the above
Do you get confused with General Standard 8? You are not alone! Come learn how to distinguish between the usability and the accessibility aspects. You will be able to apply each Specific Review Standard better and write clear constructive suggestions clearly supported by the Rubric.
Self-study curricular design offers unique opportunities through formative, systematic work using QM Standards during development. The purpose of this session is to propose Scholarship of Teaching and Learning be intentionally integrated into program development.
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