2021 Higher Ed Quality in Action

Do they remember it? Can they demonstrate it? Can they apply it? Can they expand on it?  This session proposes 5 steps to design a well-aligned assessment framework that measures student performance while promoting instructional effectiveness.

Meeting Specific Standard 8.3 has never been easier!  In this session, we will explore the "nuts and bolts" of Adobe Acrobat DC accessibility tools and create an accessible PDF in 1,2,3! We will create searchable text, set heading styles, label table header rows, check logical reading order, fix contrast issues, set a document title and language, create alt text on images, and even make a scanned document 100% accessible!

Teaching online requires a unique balance of pedagogical and time management skills. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the online classroom can seem overwhelming to both new and experienced online faculty. In the demanding COVID-19 era of remote and hyflex teaching, faculty may experience burn-out associated with facilitating online forums, posting assignments, and providing feedback.

As online learning practitioners, we spend time trying to figure out how to develop active learning within our courses. This session will showcase a variety of content samples that have been implemented to foster student-to-content interaction.

Students value individualized and timely feedback. However, suboptimal course design can limit instructors' ability to meet feedback expectations. 

This presentation focuses on designing courses using feeding cycles, which leverage feedforward to make room for high quality feedback.

The "digital divide" was a term coined in 2012 to describe the disparity amongst those students who did have internet access and those who did not (Van Dijk, 2012). Research indicates teacher preparation and quality of teaching is the leading factor in student success. Poor preparation and inadequate quality of design strategies can deprive students of equitable use and access to optimal digital-based learning experiences (Delgado, 2019).

Our way to ensure measurable and meaningful student learning outcomes across a higher education program is for the faculty to work together. We utilize backward design in a collaborative process that ensures all program outcomes are addressed.

Finding quality open educational resources is only part of the challenge when transforming course content using open educational resources.  This interactive session will help you define, locate, and integrate quality open educational resources into your existing courses.

The instructional designer and faculty member have the same goal in mind - a quality course. Yet, we often follow different paths to reach the destination. What we need is a good road map. QM4Design is the ultimate, all-in-one GPS for course design.

When the global pandemic forced schools and universities to close in March 2020, remote teaching became the order of the day. This session will examine how faculty can create  inclusive, "remote'' learning environments to meet the needs of all students, including the differently abled.