Conference Presentations

This presentation will highlight the useful course review tool that faculty and peer reviewers used for online courses at a state university, where the course builds integrated Quality Matters Standards.

Many of our faculty have completed the APPQMR training, yet seem unable to take the next step.  This year, a group of faculty met in a Learning Community to discuss how to revise their courses to meet Quality Standards.  Learn more about the FLC structure, meeting agendas, materials used, and results.

This poster will focus on how the features of a learning management system can be used to engage learners in an online learning environment.

This poster will focus on how the features of a learning management system can be used to engage learners in an online learning environment.

Writing a plan that aligns the right technology with Quality Matters Standards can assist instructors to design powerful lessons. Examples of tech plans and a list of tech tools will be available.

Feeling stalled in your QM implementation efforts?  Ready to move to the next stage but not sure how?  This presentation will frame your concerns in the language of change management based on recently published research on the QM Continuum of Excellence. 

Alignment is hard, but it doesn't have to be incomprehensible. Whether you're an instructional designer consulting with faculty on the alignment process or a faculty member needing to develop a course, this session will provide you with strategies and tools to demystify the alignment process.

QM looks at internal data to understand how our services are being used in the community and how we should improve them. We have been using Intellectus Statistics software in these endeavors for the last half of 2020. Come learn about this statistical software, how QM has used it to our advantage, and how you can, too.

In this session, participants will learn about how the Maricopa Community Colleges have evolved their program viability processes to ensure the curriculum developed meets the needs of the diverse students and communities served by our institutions. We will discuss how the Maricopa Community Colleges established and leveraged these processes to design and develop relevant curriculum that supports the diverse students and communities our institutions serve.

"Just sit right back and you’ll hear our tale, a tale of course reviews 
That started with the rubric and overcoming the “not met” blues. 
When the feedback started getting rough, instructors were growing weary 
So the design team found the standards causing the most misery." 

QM standards 3.4 (The assessment instruments selected are sequenced, varied, and suited to the learner work being assessed) and 3.5 (The course provides learners with multiple opportunities to track their learning progress) are not required standards to pass a QM review but these standards have a direct impact on authentic learning and student achievement through the correct implementation of assessments. Meeting standards 3.4 and 3.5 will greatly impact the power to establish authentic learning and create better opportunities for measurable online learning.

How do you demonstrate the impact of your QA efforts and use this information to sustain and build your work? In this session, we will share how we do this at our large public university, provide links to survey instruments, present results, and discuss how to incorporate evaluation into QA plans.

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to get the full experience as we demonstrate active learning technologies such as Perusall for active reading and collective annotations or Learning Catalytics for peer learning. See successful examples of how these traditionally F2F tools were implemented in online and hybrid classes.

Google Hangouts is a video conferencing tool that allows for synchronous communication between learners and the instructor. Using Google Hangouts in my online classes allows me to host, record, and stream discussions about various course topics. It allows learners to interact in the same manner they would in the classroom.

This presentation will analyze the student user statistics of lecture videos with the purpose of improving recorded lectures and presentations. We'll analyze real student data to consider how students are viewing lecture recordings and how you faculty might change some design or delivery practices to increase student motivation and engagement.

Collaborative activities and group work are encouraged for online classes by many authors. Having students work together has long been recognized as a valuable teaching tool. Research shows that those instructors who have had success using collaborative learning have utilized similar steps. This session will explore the steps proposed and used by successful online instructors. The discussion will determine the different ways the steps can be expressed in online instructional design and which QM Standards best apply.

Using QM Alignment to Insure Online Groupwork Success

In this session, we examine the application of Quality Matters as a framework for designing professional development for high school faculty and blended courses for high school students.  We explore pedagogy and practice and the importance of professional development for faculty who are transitioning a face-to-face course to a blended model.  We share results and testimonials from a year-long professional development program to assist faculty with: