2018 Mountain Regional Conference

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Student Success Starts Before the First Day of Class!

Although many institutions offer their learners orientations to online learning, not all instructors offer a specific orientation to their course. Both orientations are beneficial to the online learning environment and to the course, but they accomplish different objectives. Providing a Course Orientation allows learners to familiarize themselves with the information and expectations that are critical to each course they are taking.

Quia As an Online Classroom to Improve Teaching and Learning

Quia is a web tool for quintessential instructional archive and provides a wide variety of tools that are used by teachers. It is a popular platform for educational activities for teaching and learning for all areas of education. Also, Quia includes different kinds of online activities by using the teacher’s content, an online testing system that has immediate feedback, online surveys, a class webpage, and access to many free shareable activities.

Meeting QM Standards Through Hybrid Blended Learning

In this workshop, an instructor and a librarian working as team teachers will demonstrate how they designed a Hybrid Business Communication course to meet QM Specific standards 2 and 5.  Library Literacy Skills are highlighted in the research portion of the course.  Session participants will be able to apply the tenets of hybrid course design to any course that they are creating.  In addition, standards 2 and 5 will be spotlighted and defined.  An explanation will be shared to help improve course design as a hybrid blended course.

Virtually Blended: How to Use Blended Learning Within a School District

Problem or Opportunity?  Either one can be addressed by blended learning.  Does your school district have a need to be met?  A blended learning model may be the answer.  This session will showcase the development of a Blended Middle School Enrichment program and how it met the needs of students.  This presentation will begin with an overview of our virtual school, school district, and partnership with our State collaborative and content and instructional experts in blended learning.

A Culture of Continuous Improvement

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.