Conference Presentations

This session explores how one distributed K-12 program took a mandate to meet QM Standards as an opportunity to reevaluate SME, teacher, and student introductions to online learning and re-frame tough conversations around the student experience.

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!

Join us to learn more about social presence and social capital, measuring social presence, and how we use the QM introductions to provide insights for teaching and building community!

See how an Online Teaching Program (OTP) became successful from needs analysis, design philosophy, and promotion strategy. 

This fast-paced session explores moonshot thinking, innovative environments, and overcoming challenges. You are invited to share your QM story in 3 minutes or less! We will discuss your QM Moonshot and determine where in the stars you landed - from stellar successes to failures that resulted in data (rapid unscheduled disassembly) and everything in between! Observers are also welcome! 

In this session, we will discuss how the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Division of eLearning and Professional Studies developed processes for ensuring quality online course development and implemented Quality Matters across the institution from training through individual certification and course recognition.

Do you have faculty who balk at learning about Quality Matters? Come to this session to learn how and why we created a faculty learning community to help faculty refresh and revise courses using the QM Rubric as its basis… but did not reveal that was what we were doing until the very last gathering.