2014 Annual Conference

This Toolkit will be introduced during the session and feedback encouraged during and after the session.  The aim is to provide a step-by-step plan for designing a study on the impact of Quality Matter, examples are provided.  The Toolkit is a series of five modules in SoftChalk.  

Join this interactive session to brainstorm and learn how organizing strategies can help to create a faculty-led culture of QM reviews.

Join the Google Document to share resistances you encounter and provide solutions. MOre information will be added to the document after the presentation.

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As we enter the second decade of QM, it's time to pause and take a look at the findings revealed in studies focused on QM. QM's director of research and research colleagues will overview the findings of QM-focused research to date.  Categories will include: student satisfaction, student learning outcomes, impact on instructors, and impact at departmental/organizational levels. Types of methodologies most frequently used and lessons learned from those studies will be discussed.

One of the key components of QM’s peer review process is the inclusion of helpful feedback from each review team member that is meant to guide the course developer in making course improvements.  This roundtable will discuss some of the impacts of “less than” helpful recommendations on the overall value and integrity of the peer review process and will focus on identifying strategies and ideas that Peer Reviewers and Master Reviewers might use to ensure that the recommendations in each review team report are “more than” helpful.

The Minnesota Online Quality Initiative coordinates the Quality Matters implementation of a state-wide Quality Matters subscription involving 35 public higher education institutions.  This session will include discussion of challenges, successes and lessons learned. Our approach to implementation is designed to encourage successful, strategic collaboration among faculty from a wide variety of institutions to promote and celebrate quality.  We will discuss practical ideas and processes for building collaboration, communication, and support.  

Jillian Jevack, Instructional Designer for Quality Matters, presents a process and worksheet for conducting a Self Review of a course. With an eye to continuous improvement and a focus on the QM Rubric Standards, this presentation at the Annual QM Conference on Quality Assurance in Online Learning shows participants how to access tools for a self-review process.

The webcasted video of this presentation can be seen on our YouTube channel.

You THINK implementing the Quality Matters Program at your institution is positively impacting teaching and learning, but how do you really KNOW? This workshop will help you learn how to assess QM's institutional impacts on a variety of levels including faculty transformation, student success and institutional policies and culture. Examine some schematics on impacts and determine how they can be applied.

In this presentation, we will discuss a case-study example of moving a course from face-to-face to online and now to hybrid and discuss the opportunities and challenges from this experience.

As part of QM's research agenda for 2014/2015, we want to encourage intra- and inter-institution research on how QM affects students.  This session will introduce two projects, with some preliminary data, that focus on student perceptions of their online learning experience. The basic research question: How does applying QM to a course affect students?

Project 1) Compare online courses that do, and do not, meet QM standards in terms of affect, self-efficacy, and quality of experience as evidenced in real-time student feedback during the course