Conference Presentations

Hear perspectives from CA State, Kent State, and Minnesota State on lessons learned, favorite tools and tips for managing subscriber managed course reviews, tracking data, and growing your reviewer pool. Leave with great ideas and takeaways for implementation at your institution.

Ever seen movies like "13 going on 30" Or "Freaky Friday" where two very different people switch bodies for a time? Join us for an out of body experience role play that helps you get in the mindset of your students and explore an adversarial thought approach to instructional design.

To remain competitive and innovative, Collin College moved courses from in-person to online delivery and opened our virtual campus, iCollin. Many of the courses were never taught online, and we wanted to ensure the same quality and rigor for students. We utilized the MyCR system in QM to and created a custom rubric to provide a solid and measurable review process.

Do they remember it? Can they demonstrate it? Can they apply it? Can they expand on it?  This session proposes 5 steps to design a well-aligned assessment framework that measures student performance while promoting instructional effectiveness.

What can you do when content expertise, quality design, and learner motivation aren’t “enough” to obtain learner success? Designers and faculty can enhance online learner experiences by considering the multiple domains of wellness needed to live healthy, blissful lives. By using inclusive design strategies that merge these domains with QM standards, designers and faculty can create optimal online learning environments. 

This session will identify the important hallmarks identified by the Higher Learning Commission and the Higher Education Quality Matters Rubric Standards addressing organizational mission and online learning and the relationship to retention.

Case studies encourage students to be active learners and critical thinkers. But in an online course, how can faculty ensure that students are ready to tackle a case, or move forward from one stage of a case to another? Expensive corporate training software can do this, but you don't need to spend money or time learning new technologies. Using the adaptive release settings in many LMSs, faculty can ensure learners have the support they need to work through a case, receiving appropriate feedback along the way.

Participants from small or large institutions will be emboldened to overcome learner disengagement by effectively transforming learners into peer-instructors, in productive ways that leads to greater outcomes for all learners.

In addition to the rubric, process, and professional development, implementing Quality Matters at many institutions has been about creating community centered on quality online teaching and course design. A noble goal, but one that is difficult to measure – what does a community look like? How do you know it is growing, or healthy? This presentation shares the results of an ongoing design-based study that uses social network analysis to visualize and analyze community formation during the development of a campus-wide implementation of QM.

Most of the faculty professional development efforts—whether provided by teaching and learning centers or other entities in our campuses—appear to give little attention to assessment design. Developing effective assessments is an intellectually serious task that deserves our undivided attention. In this session, we will analyze a comprehensive framework for designing meaningful assignments that not only measure students' performance, but also promote deep learning.

This session will showcase a sustainable continuous improvement model through a compelling case study of the nursing program at Loma Linda University. Through a unique partnership, Loma Linda and iDesign have worked together to redesign the online RN to BS program.

The goals of this partnership are two-fold; 1. To develop a successful degree program and 2. To implement a Continuous Improvement (CI) program in order to create connections between courses, degree programs and institutional goals and, in turn, support accreditation efforts.  

Join us in a humorous approach to building the instructional designer / faculty subject matter expert relationship. You'll not only laugh -- but also learn more about yourself and your approach to sometimes challenging situations.

Discussion boards are still one of the primary tools used for student interaction within online courses.  However, due to the way the tool has historically been used, students view discussions as busy work and tend to put less than their best effort into the activity.  This inevitably leads to instructor frustration as the tool that promised to mimic traditional conversations in a classroom has fallen short as it degrades to an "I Agree with what they said" type of interaction.

Standard verbs to describe human capabilities, with examples of phrases incorporating action verbs.

This session will provide an overview of the Online Course Development Award process of implementing QM at the University of Northern Iowa. It will explore the partnership that occurs between faculty and instructional developer (ID) as a foundation of the thinking about and application of the design and functionality of the course content following the QM Rubric. The presenters will also discuss the ongoing transformation of the developer and faculty roles to develop and deliver effective online instruction.

This interactive session will focus on the University of Northern Iowa Online Course Development Award process of implementing Quality Matters and the partnership between faculty and instructional developer. The partnership is a foundation for thinking about and applying the course design principles of the QM Rubric.

How did a small, rural, multi-campus community college become one of the top 2 percent of all QM institutions? Come on an interactive journey to discover ideas to achieve QM success at your campus. You'll learn how leadership, internal mentors, faculty workshops, monetary incentives, and a wall of fame motivate faculty to pursue QM Certification. There will be several strategies for how you, too, can get a piece of the pie. Be sure to bring your wireless device to this presentation.

Jill Holmes, Sheryl Barton, and Kim Hansen

The Covid 19 pandemic required that most colleges move to virtual instruction. What started out as a necessity, is now being seen as a tremendous opportunity which has allowed faculty to rethink how they teach their courses both seated and online.