Conference Presentations

Wouldn't it be great to be a new college? Distance learning courses, proactively designed from scratch to meet accessibility standards, would eliminate terms like "legacy course" and "faculty buy-in".  Imagine a world where WCAG did not require a Google search on acronyms.

Trying to determine what professional development (PD) opportunities best meet faculty and staff needs? This session can help! Join QM's Senior Manager of PD and a Dean of eLearning + QM Coordinator with a wealth of experience in this area as they guide you through: the different pathways available for QM professional development, how QM PD can aid your implementation journey and support your goals, and how to choose the right PD (at the right time) for your faculty and staff needs.

Adoption of QM can be challenging in smaller, private institutions, which value academic freedom. A potential untapped leverage is in health science programs.  We will discuss an institution initiative, successes and strategies to increase adoption.

Are you fully utilizing QM reporting tools? Let's discuss how to use standard and customizable QM reporting tools to keep track of professional development, course reviews, and QM role holders to support and evaluate your implementation efforts.

For many faculty members, the very thought of teaching online raises alarms and defenses. However, even in seated classes in today's world, we can all benefit from learning and instituting the principals of quality online course design. A team consisting of a Director of Online Learning and two faculty members will lead this fun discussion that will help rescue and respect faculty prone to resist. This session is aimed at anyone who can have an impact on faculty members in higher education.

Research shows that a higher intensity of engagement leads to greater performance in online classes. But how can we verify this at our own institutions? What types of data can support this research and how do we access it?

Alamo Colleges Online has undertaken significant efforts to ensure quality in online course design. This proposal highlights our initiatives over the past four years, including faculty training, course certifications, district policy updates and enhancements, and the implementation of AI technology to enhance efficiency. Attendees will learn about our strategies, the importance of faculty engagement, and the innovative use of AI to scale our quality assurance processes.

Have you ever found yourself writing the exact same comment on every assignment submitted by the same student throughout the semester?  Let's talk about it and how we can create effective feedback and get students to use it!

This session will present the WeTeach program, a model proven to be successful to engage faculty in a voluntary program supporting course design and integrating QM Standards. The program includes a flexible model with multiple delivery methods that address faculty's needs with personalized custom attention. This session will showcase the program's structure, project management tools and strategies, campus communication and promotion, and a brief overview of content topics.

Does the new QM Rubric go far enough to address emerging competency-based, customized, flexible models in higher education? We will use as a case study courses that were previously QM-Certified that have recently been converted to one institution's new flexible model of delivery directly assessing competencies. We will assess possible application of the new QM Rubric to this new model as well as to other higher education models and explore the implications for the continuing evolution of the Rubric.

In this presentation, we will discuss a case-study example of moving a course from face-to-face to online and now to hybrid and discuss the opportunities and challenges from this experience.

The concept of the flipped classroom has been a hot topic in education in the last few years.   While some institutions have fully embraced this style of learning, others have good intentions but may not know how and where to start when it comes to actually implementing this approach.  Beginning in Fall 2014, a fully flipped classroom was implemented in a senior level medical-surgical nursing course.  This presentation will discuss the implementation process, student feedback, and student outcomes in the course.

Are you new to QM? Do you teach content that promotes impactful student conversations but are unsure how to design online meaningful engagement that you have with your f2f courses? We answered yes to these questions and then asked ourselves, "Can we use QM to make this part of the course better?”We faced some challenges, but here we are... QM certified and ready to share our experiences about promoting participant engagement in conversations about complex social topics.

Does your institution need Quality Matters (QM) buy-in? If so, follow the leaders! This session focuses on activating a community of practice (CoP) that are faculty leaders who assist with QM implementation and quality assurance. 

Follow the yellow brick road to becoming  a QM K-12 Certified Course Reviewer.  In this presentation you will learn the steps you will need to take in order to become a certified course reviewer.

Retention is a hot topic in online courses, where Patterson and McFadden (2009) found dropout rates to be up to 6-7 times higher than the same on-campus programs. However, the QM Rubric can be used to design courses that can lead toward better retention and success of online learners. This session will review some of the literature about online retention and the QM Specific Standards that can help to keep students engaged.

Most campuses have a faculty training or development program, and some may even have a set curriculum for that program. However, they may consider Quality Matters to be a portion of the curriculum all to itself. We have found that embedding the ideals and best practices that Quality Matters embodies?from the underlying principles to the Rubric-- into every training or faculty development event can help to promote the program's effectiveness much more than having QM be a stand-alone initiative.

In an increasingly complex educational landscape, the roles of instructional design and instructional consulting have emerged as pivotal in shaping effective teaching and learning experiences in higher education. As institutions strive to meet the diverse needs of students, innovative approaches to course design, instructional strategies, and faculty support have become essential. This presentation will explore the critical role of the ADDIE model data-driven decision in course design. 

 “Fostering Student Engagement” Are you growing weary of text-heavy content inside online courses? If so, this session is for you!

The goal of this session is to share strategies used by the North Carolina Virtual Public School that capture the attention of students and support learning activities. Learning objects can be used to help your online course meet and exceed QM Standard 6.2.

We will highlight significant findings from four years of surveying online learning policies, practices and plans, and discuss with the audience the implications of these findings for longer-range development of the field.