2018 QM Connect Conference

Chief Online Learning Officers Perspectives on Management, Governance, and Quality Assurance

The chief online officer is gaining influence in schools where online learning is becoming a mainstream activity. This session will compare CHLOE Survey results with the experience of a panel of four chief online officers regarding their management role and involvement in online quality assurance.

Save Time, Look Amazing, and Meet QM Standards in Canvas with Cidi Labs Design Tools

Demonstration of the Cidi Labs Design Tools in Canvas will be shown, both screenshots and a live demo, wireless connectivity permitting.  We will also discuss the steps we took to create templates to help meet specific QM standards.  Participants will also be shown how to request a sandbox with Cidi Labs to try out the tools themselves.  A question/answer session will also be included at the end of the talk.

'My Favorite Activity was the Group Project.' -- GASP! How did that Happen?

Sixty-seven percent of the students in an online freshman seminar class reported that the group project was their favorite activity. In this session, we will discuss how the instructor used Quality Matters recommendations, transparency, and inclusive design to transform the group presentation experience from disastrous to delightful. We will apply QM, TILT, and inclusive design to real projects, and discuss how you can use these concepts to enhance the group projects in your classes.

To Certify or Not to Certify: Why Should I?

Quality Matters is great, but why bother? 
Let's talk about: (1) why instructors who certified courses went the extra mile,  (2) why instructors who chose not certify didn't go the extra mile, and  (3) how we can use their experiences to help more instructors apply the Quality Matters Rubric to more courses.

The slides in the presentation 

  • present a scenario
  • provide my background
  • agenda
  • learning objectives
  • research overview and findings
  • prompt for audience activity

Tailoring to fit: Selling ideas for what's possible in online teaching

How many times have you heard, “I just don’t see how it’s possible to do XYZ online”? Join us as we wield powerful strategies to debunk this misconception through case studies illustrating real reformatting situations in higher education. Then we’ll make it personal by offering solutions to our own design challenges. You’ll leave with a productive set of tools and resources to prove that it’s not only possible to do XYZ online, but that it may be impossible to do it any other way from now on.