2014 Annual Conference

This presentation will present a case study of a very large, complex, and well-known financial institution and its transformation into a learning organization using the QM Rubric. The presentation is for new QM practitioners and corporate education professionals who are QM-trained. The goal of the presentation is to demonstrate how QM can help an institution move from "training" to "learning."

Besides student success and completion rates, what are the other areas in which QM has made an impact? What tools can extend the reach of QM's impact into the culture of an institution? How can you collect data using action research?

Are you a course developer who can't find time to prepare your course so that it's ready to sail smoothly through a Quality Matters course review? Or maybe you're the "captain" of faculty training at your institution, and you want to chart a course that will allow faculty to dedicate time to revisions and review of a course through the lens of the QM Rubric. Join us to learn about barriers course developers may be facing and find out how WKU solved their dilemma with a low-stress and interactive workshop series.

After our multi-campus university system adopted QM, our instructional designers/technologists realized that a full-day workshop is a hard sell for many faculty. We wanted ways to introduce QM’s rubric to people who might be turned off by the major commitment of completing APPQMR. We used theatrical vignettes to do it.

This presentation shows how the art of storytelling and narrative can be used as a way to create presence and meaningful experiences in online and blended courses. Various tools, methods, and oneline resources will be explored as a way to create, embody, and present narrative in online and blended courses.

This presentation will show how three QM Certified courses in three different disciplines used unique and engaging strategies to meet the QM Standards.  The presenters will discuss their use of modular course design, and the implementation of module learning guides that show alignment of unit/module learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, and program learning outcomes for all course activities and assessments.

While QM Standard 8 addresses accessibility for vision and hearing differences, other QM Standards address a wider range of diverse learning and instructional accessibility needs.  This session will help faculty understand how different QM Standards help diverse students and show how QM helps to achieve good universal design.  While assisting those with vision and hearing differences is good practice, statistically there is a higher likelihood that students with other learning and cognitive needs are in our online classes.

This presentation showcases a collaborative relationship between the Maryland Judiciary, a community college and Quality Matters. This collaboration demonstrates the use of the Quality Matters Continuing Professional Education Rubric for excellence in online course design and future possibilities for the Judiciary system.

In 1987, Chickering and Gamson published their seminal work "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education." Session participants will be introduced to the "seven principles" and will explore how they align with QM's eight General Standards. Breakout groups will brainstorm to create good practices and will share and discuss ideas. Individual participants will rank ideas that will be most useful for promoting quality instruction. After the session, presenters will compile this information and make available a "Top Ten" list for conference attendees.