2018 QM Connect Conference

Videos can make learning come alive. Especially if they are teacher created. One misconception is that Closed Captioning (CC) is just for deaf and hard of hearing. What about students who are not auditory learners or students whose native language is not English? Closed Captioning can help all learners, but not all CC videos are created equal. Participants will learn how to search for CC videos on both YouTube and Google and evaluate it for accuracy.

We use three models for multi-media in our courses: videos of faculty created while collaborating with a video production specialist, student created videos, and faculty “lectures”. We will discuss these models and the successes and challenges we faced in creating multi-media for our courses.

After losing $1.6M in performance-based funding due to a 1% decline in success rates, our college committed to improve student success. Learn how a large, multi-campus, unionized college implemented Quality Matters, leading to a 4.6% increase in student success rates.

 This session is being presented by QM Research Colleagues. Through discussion of various examples as well as audience ideas and questions, we will address limitations and constraints as well as potential uses for conducting research using the QM Rubric.

Join an expedition on a mission to blaze uncommon paths to quality. Your Paths-Less-Traveled Toolkit will introduce online tools and innovative uses of traditional LMS tools for building highly interactive classes with multi-level group engagement. #QMConnectPaths

Are there times when you find the prescriptive structure and processes of Quality Matters to be limiting? Do you want to know what Ernest Hemingway and Dr. Seuss have in common with QM? Join us for an interactive exploration of the unexpected freedom and creativity that can accompany constraint.

Changing culture isn't easy, but changing one within higher ed can seem impossible. Join leaders from MSU Denver as we share our award-winning, adaptive approach to managing course design. This QM-informed, tokenomics-inspired framework has changed our culture, and it can change yours too.

Nursing faculty responsible for the Quality Assurance (QA) of one of our state’s largest online nursing programs will present a Quality Talk. Our question is “What is the difference in students’ scores before and after QM certification for the eight core courses of an online Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program?” We will use story-telling technique to share transformation of online courses into a complete QM certified program for registered nurses (RNs) earning a BSN.

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.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) serve to accommodate the growing load of student enrollment in higher education programs: as a way to increase instructor and student connectivity, by providing a hub for learning resources, allowing a stream of data and analysis for systems learning, and increasing student engagement. Dependency on LMS for virtual delivery of learning content and use continues to increase (Allen and Seaman, 2016).