Digital badges can support learning that happens beyond traditional classrooms and can be used to represent achievements, communicate success, and set goals. Digital badges are currently being offered to students in a Computer Literacy online course as one method for making evident a student's progress through the learning activities associated with the course. Participants will learn how to use badges to help student engagement in an online course. Earn a Credly badge (maybe your first) for attending this session!
Support for faculty is everything! This session will provide an overview of the collaborative online course development process offered at a comprehensive Midwestern university. The instructional development team will outline their online course award stipend-based process, pre-development instructor preparation with qualified Quality Matters facilitators, course development, implementation, and ongoing evaluation and support. This session will include an active dialogue with session participants; discussion will be encouraged throughout the presentation.
Over the past two years the field has seen a significant increase in enforcement of civil rights legislation in the area of access to online learning for people with disabilities. The presenter is recognized as the current expert on these issues. It has become eminently clear that there are no differences between higher education and K-12 in the legal compliance for online learning. This session will articulate the expectations the federal enforcement agencies have with respect to access and equity in online learning in K-12 and Higher Education.
Community promotes a sense of belonging, which provides motivation and encouragement for successful course completion.
Presenters will demonstrate techniques such as reciprocal teaching and formative assessments and the use of online applications like community maps, wikis, Brainshark, and vokis for building community and social presence in blended and online learning.
Is it really possible to teach "public speaking" online? In this session, I share my personal narrative about how I have become a successful "online" speech teacher.
The concept of the flipped classroom has been a hot topic in education in the last few years. While some institutions have fully embraced this style of learning, others have good intentions but may not know how and where to start when it comes to actually implementing this approach. Beginning in Fall 2014, a fully flipped classroom was implemented in a senior level medical-surgical nursing course. This presentation will discuss the implementation process, student feedback, and student outcomes in the course.
What is the heart beat of QM on Campus? What does QM adoption mean for faculty, instructional designers, administrators and professional staff responsible for online course quality. What effect do institutional factors (size, research status, private/public, union/non-union/adjunct faculty, mission, tenure/promotion, etc.) have on how QM is adopted? The panel members will address commonly asked questions as well engage the audience participants to tell their muddiest stories on what it is like to adopt and use Quality Matters on Campus.
