This session addresses the question: “What activities can learners engage in to improve distinct brain areas and processes?” Just like endurance, strength, and agility; your memory, perception, and cognition can be improved through exercise. Many of us are fascinated with puzzles such as Sudoku and crosswords. In addition to releasing dopamine, puzzles have been shown to improve specific areas of the brains. In this session, participants will solve different types of puzzles that stimulate distinct brain areas and processes in the broad areas of memory, perception, and cognition.
Does your institution struggle with the “best” method to assess student writing? We will compare the processes and results of three methods used to assess student writing at the institution level, including a new LMS tool, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.Does your institution struggle with the “best” method to assess student writing? We will compare the processes and results of three methods used to assess student writing at the institution level, including a new LMS tool, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
The acceptance and growth of QM's QA process is due, in part, to peer-to-peer review by qualified faculty peer reviewers? Why was this practice chosen in the first place? Has it achieved its original purposes? Where is it likely to go in the future? Join this session to find out and share your views.
How many times have you had to deliver the news that a course needs improvement when working with faculty in online course development? Do you dread it? This session will help you identify strategies for building relationships through these difficult conversations.
Walk around the edge of the QM Research pool to see what it looks like - and then dive in for a true understanding of what's under the surface. Get comfortable in the water so you can take a dip whenever you like.
As part of the Quality Talks, this session focuses on quality assessment from the beginning, by way of stressing the importance of well designed competency maps of each program/concentration. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: Describe the relationship between curriculum mapping and assessment as it applies to quality assurance of program content.
This poster presentation centers around planning a focused Faculty Learning Community based on working with course or program level mandated objectives which are not measurable (QM Standards 2.1 and 2.2).
Often, faculty are unfamiliar with instructional design principles and at the same time instructional designers are unfamiliar with course subject matter. As for the students, their question is, “Why am I doing this?” This session will discuss using course maps to help faculty and designers work together to conceptualize goals for instruction, to help students understand the purpose of course goals and instructional materials, and to design instruction that satisfies QM alignment standards (2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, and 6.1).
Our university launched several initiatives to improve online education quality including adopting the Quality Matters (QM) standards for online course design, and creation of the Faculty Fellows (2017-2012). Two new initiatives are featured: (1) Quarterly Applying Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) Workshops and, (2) A series of 40 workshops offered weekly focusing on assessment, accessibility and technical skills. The establishment of these categories was created to support a QM based Master Course Template for the Learning Management System.The outcomes of the workshops have been positive.
