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Winning Over Our Educators on Quality Matters_DJones

Educational institutions are under increasing pressure to ensure consistency and quality to increase engagement, student knowledge and retention. It is vital for online courses to promote rigor, engagement, retention and academic standards for success. This is the reason our school has adopted the QM Rubric for our development process of online courses. Another measure for quality is to send our instructors through the APPQMR course. We will share our process and the results of surveys of faculty after taking the APPQMR course.

Within and Across - Cultivating a Culture of Presence in an Asynchronous Online Program

Presence is a well-established construct individual instructors use to engage online students, but how do you create a culture of presence across an entire program? In this session we will share practical strategies to build and maintain an engaged, cohesive student experience from a program's start to finish.

Within and Across - Cultivating a Culture of Presence in an Asynchronous Online Program

Presence is a well-established construct individual instructors use to engage online students, but how do faculty and designers create a culture of presence across an entire program? This poster shares practical strategies to build and maintain an engaged, cohesive student experience from a program's start to finish.

Working it Out When it Doesn't Work Out: Collecting Efficacy Data for Continuous Improvement

We all know the importance of collecting data on our individual and institutional efforts and projects. But what happens when the data doesn't show what you expected? How do you move forward? This presentation will focus on a case example of creating collaborative online working groups, the efficacy data collected, and what happened when the results did not pan out as expected.

Y'all Means All: An HBCU's Holistic Approach to Diverse Online Learner Support

As the population of online and hybrid learners steadily increases among higher education institutions, so does the need for student-centered services that promote learner success. Heeding this call and continuing its legacy of educational access for all, a mid-size, southern HBCU recognized the need to develop academic and student support networks reliable enough to serve as a standard for quality support yet flexible enough for personalized learner success.

Y'all Means All: An HBCU's Holistic Approach to Diverse Online Learner Support

While continuing its legacy of providing educational access for all, North Carolina Central University recognized the need to develop academic and student support networks reliable enough to serve as a standard for quality support yet flexible enough for personalized learner success. Join us during this highly engaging session as we investigate NCCU's research-based efforts to meet General Standard 7 and contribute to online learner support with the whole student in mind.

Yoga as a Metaphor for Instructional Design: Using the Practice of Yoga to Explore the Collaborative Processes of Building Quality Online Courses

How does one lead a team in a collaborative process of building quality online courses? The practice of yoga provides a compelling image through which to explore the presence and work of those who lead design teams. Toward that end, the metaphor can help faculty and instructional designers begin work with a design team, assume their professional persona, work the creative process, deal with competing forces to create something new, lead difficult team members, endure complications with patience, and learn from their work. This workshop is not really about yoga, but you may learn some!

Yoga as a Metaphor for Instructional Design: Using the Practice of Yoga to Explore the Collaborative Processes of Building Quality Online Courses

How does one lead a team in a collaborative process of building quality online courses? The practice of yoga provides a compelling image through which to explore the presence and work of those who lead design teams. Toward that end, the metaphor can help faculty and instructional designers begin work with a design team, assume their professional persona, work the creative process, deal with competing forces to create something new, lead difficult team members, endure complications with patience, and learn from their work. This workshop is not really about yoga, but you may learn some!

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide: Building Social Presence in Online Learning Through Voice Thread

The purposes of this study were to examine students’ perceptions of online learning and identify attributes that contributes to a sense of a community. A total of 228 students participated in the study, which attempted to determine whether students perceived a social presence in the online course as a result of using VoiceThread. Findings revealed students’ perceptions of a high-quality course were dependent upon continual communication with the instructor, a predetermined method of connecting students with one another and students’ ability to express their opinions.

You had Me at "Hello" - Maximizing the Power of QM Introductions

A QM Connect 2019 Grapevine, Texas session featuring a motorcycle riding petite instructor/presenter who incorporated "Two Truths and a Lie""as a fun Introduction prompt became our inspiration! Wow! No more boring introductions allowed! Now we use the QM mandated introduction as part of efforts to build and measure social presence and social capital in a cohort model. Our prompts fall into three categories: course-related, course-related fun, and just plain fun!