2020 QM ConnectLX

Feeling stalled in your QM implementation efforts?  Ready to move to the next stage but not sure how?  This presentation will frame your concerns in the language of change management based on recently published research on the QM Continuum of Excellence. 

Abraham Lincoln once stated, “When I read aloud, two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I can remember it better.”  Expanding on Lincoln's idea, ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology incorporates more than you seeing and hearing your material. Our suite of tools perfectly fit Universal Design for Learning: the WHAT of learning, the HOW of learning, and the WHY of learning.

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

The crowd-sourced site Wikipedia historically is disregarded by the academic community as unreliable. However, online college courses can help improve Wikipedia. This poster explains how journalism and mass communication courses taught online applied subject-matter concepts according to Quality Matters standards to edit Wikipedia articles. This approach can be used for any subject.

Typically, decisions guiding blended instruction were framed by considering what content could be moved online using well developed training and support tools.  However, the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly shifted everything online. Instead of substituting established online approaches, some faculty began “remote instruction,” holding hours-long, large scale, online synchronous classes.  This model met with mixed but mostly negative reactions from students.

Rethink how you use the Discussion Tool and discover quality student-centered discussion designs, rubrics, and emerging trends with multimedia tools that can be tailored to your class. (Standard 5.2 and 6.1)

Typically, decisions guiding blended instruction were framed by considering what content could be moved online using well developed training and support tools.  However, the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly shifted everything online. Instead of substituting established online approaches, some faculty began “remote instruction,” holding hours-long, large scale, online synchronous classes.  This model met with mixed but mostly negative reactions from students.

This session will introduce participants to State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA) and its benefits to students and institutions, and will share some of the preliminary findings on projected institutional savings.

Students recognize quality when they see it. Come learn how students view markers of quality online education and about a study that shows how they vote with their feet. You will walk away knowing how to communicate your quality to students.

Have you had to manage more than a couple of course reviews at the same time? Have you asked the same reviewer to serve on multiple QM Review Teams?  Did you accidentally email the same reviewer twice in a week?  Once the review is complete, how do you know if you have accomplished all the post review details?