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Quality Matters Inter-Institutional Quality Assurance in Online Learning |
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Pre-Conference
Workshops
June 11, 2010
Hyatt Lodge at the McDonald Campus, Oak Brook, Illinois
This is your opportunity to take one or more Quality
Matters face-to-face trainings at a considerable savings
compared to standard QM training fees.
The emphasis of this pre-conference day is to
showcase new and recent QM workshops, but basic QM
training is also available.
Workshops may be taken independently or in
conjunction with attendance at the Quality Matters
Conference on June 12-13.
Full Day Workshops:
Fee for Subscribers = $125
Fee for Non-Subscribers = $175
Applying the Quality Matters Rubric
This is QM’s flagship workshop, training on the QM
Rubric and its use in evaluating online courses.
This workshop is intended for a broad audience,
including, but not limited to, those who aspire and are
eligible to serve as QM Peer Reviewers.
(Those who wish to become QM Peer Reviewers will
need to take the online QM Peer Reviewer Certification
module subsequent to this workshop.)
Applying the Grades 6 – 12 Edition of the Quality
Matters Rubric
This workshop provides training on the middle and high
school version of the QM Rubric that will be released in
early 2010.
It is intended for a broad audience interested in
quality assurance for K – 12 online and blended courses,
including, but not limited to, teachers, instructional
designers, school administrators, and others who aspire
to become K – 12 QM Peer Reviewers.
The full day version is intended for those who
have not taken the standard “Applying the QM Rubric,” or
previously qualified as QM Peer Reviewers.
Half-Day
Workshops:
Fee for Subscribers = $75
Fee for Non-Subscribers = $100
For two Half-Day Workshops: Subscribers = $125
Non-Subscribers = $175
Applying the Grades 6 – 12 Edition of the Quality
Matters Rubric
This workshop provides training on the middle and high
school version of the QM Rubric that will be released in
early 2010.
It is intended for a broad audience interested in
quality assurance for K – 12 online and blended courses,
including, but not limited to, teachers, instructional
designers, school administrators, and others who aspire
to become K – 12 QM Peer Reviewers.
The half-day version is intended for those who
are already QM Peer Reviewers or have previously taken
“Applying the QM Rubric.”
Addressing Accessibility
(Standard 8) This recent workshop is appropriate for those faculty and instructional designers who wish to explore accessibility topics for their online and hybrid courses. You will learn about accessibility legislation and accommodation tools and techniques.
Building Your Hybrid Course to Quality Matters Standards
This new workshop focuses on the specific challenges of
implementing the QM standards in a hybrid or blended
format. You
will explore which activities are best accomplished in
the classroom and which ones may be more effective
online, and how best to manage the relationship between
the two.
This workshop is appropriate for faculty and
instructional designers who currently work in a hybrid
or blended environment, or are considering the implementation of
hybrid or blended courses in the future.
Learning Objectives and Resources
(General Standards 2&3)
In this new workshop, participants will review their
course learning objectives to verify that they are
measurable and specific and evaluate their assessments
to determine if they actually measure their stated
learning objectives.
This alignment process will expose any
inconsistencies among course elements and strengthen the
course by ensuring that the critical components --
learning objectives and assessments – work together to
help your students learn.
Recommended for faculty and instructional
designers.
Quality
Matters Overview
Fee for Subscribers = $25
Fee for Non-Subscribers = $50 For those new to Quality Matters, this session will provide an overview of the underlying principles of the Quality Matters approach, a description of the QM Rubric and the process for reviewing courses, and examples of how institutions, consortia and statewide groups are implementing QM. Examples will illustrate how QM is being used to enhance online and hybrid courses, contribute to faculty development, and support quality assurance initiatives.
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