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Mastering Elearning: One Faculty Group’s Experience

Join us as we share our adventures as a faculty group of digital immigrants who collaboratively designed five core courses in an education Master’s program. Based on Best Practices in faculty development, our session will provide insight into working as a team to meet QM principles. We will outline tips  that can be used as you transition to online learning, you will reflect on how a collaborative program development process could work for you. 

Mastering the Online Teaching Path: Integrating QM Standards in an Online Teaching Certificate

Online faculty development programs have become critical for academic staff in higher education. The Pathway to Master Online Instructor Program was created to meet faculty's needs in course design, delivery, and course improvement. A study,based on Phase 1 of the program, examined the design of an online teaching certificate course developed according to QM standards. The presentation reports the results of the study and provides opportunities for participants to explore the relationship between QM essential Standards and faculty-perceived learning.

Mastering the Symphony of Synchronous Instruction - Crafting Your Theory of Action for Online Excellence

Do you have a theory of action?  What guiding principles and strategies do you find essential to plan and deliver synchronous instruction online?  Join us for this interactive and dynamic exploration of best practices in synchronous instruction, where you'll have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with fellow leaders. Together, we'll uncover strategies that lead to highly effective synchronous sessions, transforming your online teaching game for the better!

Maximizing Learner Engagement: Strategies for Encouraging Learner Participation in Online Lectures

For years, faculty have relied on simple voice over PowerPoint to deliver lecture content. However, this method has repeatedly fallen short on engagement and interaction, especially for today's online learner. How do we get learners to actually watch our lectures? Additionally, what strategies can we use to encourage learners to keep going and focus on key pieces of information? At the University of Akron, we'll share the innovative ways faculty have elevated their lectures with interactivity, thoughtful questions, and powerful visuals to get learners to actually watch and engage.

Maximizing Student Success By Enhancing Process for Quality Online Programs

Join us for an insightful presentation focused on how to improve the quality of your online program to optimize student success. This session will explore an early warning intervention and monitoring system aimed at improving the process and procedures used when providing student support. Discover how to create the conditions for success to increase student achievement and elevate the quality of your online program simply by making changes in what you do!

May All your District Needs be Grant-Ed!

There are always things on the wishlist- from central office down to the classroom. In this session you and your team will understand options so that all your wishes may be grant-ed! It has been a whirlwind few years of stimulus funds, but what does the future hold? It is hard without a grant team and can seem overwhelming to find the best fit for grants, but during this session I will help you to identify helpful opportunities and pass on any tips and tricks that I know from my experience. I promise, it can be easier than you think!

Measuring Online Course Design: A Comparative Analysis

 

This paper investigated the differences between students' and QM peer reviewers’ perspectives of essential QM standards in three online courses. Rasch analysis is used to validate the instrument and nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test is used to evaluate a difference between the two. The primary goal of this study is to provide an explanation of the gaps between students’ perceptions and QM peer reviewers’ regarding the online courses reviewed by QM peer reviewers. 

Measuring Quality Through a Continuous Improvement Model Using SiVaD- Success Indicators Validated Through Aligned Data

Implementing a comprehensive model for continuous improvement in the K-12 online school can be an overwhelming task. Join us as we provide an overview of SiVaD-Success Indicators Validated Through Aligned Data, a continuous improvement model designed specifically for a K-12 online school. The SiVaD Model is a framework for measuring quality and provides an understandable, user-friendly system for continuous improvement and addresses quality using inputs, outputs and outcomes.