Conference Presentations

This session will present the WeTeach program, a model proven to be successful to engage faculty in a voluntary program supporting course design and integrating QM Standards. The program includes a flexible model with multiple delivery methods that address faculty's needs with personalized custom attention. This session will showcase the program's structure, project management tools and strategies, campus communication and promotion, and a brief overview of content topics.

Does the new QM Rubric go far enough to address emerging competency-based, customized, flexible models in higher education? We will use as a case study courses that were previously QM-Certified that have recently been converted to one institution's new flexible model of delivery directly assessing competencies. We will assess possible application of the new QM Rubric to this new model as well as to other higher education models and explore the implications for the continuing evolution of the Rubric.

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.

The concept of the flipped classroom has been a hot topic in education in the last few years.   While some institutions have fully embraced this style of learning, others have good intentions but may not know how and where to start when it comes to actually implementing this approach.  Beginning in Fall 2014, a fully flipped classroom was implemented in a senior level medical-surgical nursing course.  This presentation will discuss the implementation process, student feedback, and student outcomes in the course.

Follow the yellow brick road to becoming  a QM K-12 Certified Course Reviewer.  In this presentation you will learn the steps you will need to take in order to become a certified course reviewer.

Retention is a hot topic in online courses, where Patterson and McFadden (2009) found dropout rates to be up to 6-7 times higher than the same on-campus programs. However, the QM Rubric can be used to design courses that can lead toward better retention and success of online learners. This session will review some of the literature about online retention and the QM Specific Standards that can help to keep students engaged.

Most campuses have a faculty training or development program, and some may even have a set curriculum for that program. However, they may consider Quality Matters to be a portion of the curriculum all to itself. We have found that embedding the ideals and best practices that Quality Matters embodies?from the underlying principles to the Rubric-- into every training or faculty development event can help to promote the program's effectiveness much more than having QM be a stand-alone initiative.

 “Fostering Student Engagement” Are you growing weary of text-heavy content inside online courses? If so, this session is for you!

The goal of this session is to share strategies used by the North Carolina Virtual Public School that capture the attention of students and support learning activities. Learning objects can be used to help your online course meet and exceed QM Standard 6.2.

We will highlight significant findings from four years of surveying online learning policies, practices and plans, and discuss with the audience the implications of these findings for longer-range development of the field.

This session reviews how one institution's existing organizational structure is leveraged to coordinate QM resources. No one person can do this work in isolation. It requires collaboration and consultation across campus and academic units. This session will illustrate a QM framework with three divisions: administration, training and development, and implementation. The framework identifies overlap between divisions, striving to improve student learning and success, and, most importantly, allowing faculty to make decisions regarding QM implementation.

Many adult learners in higher education have a need for free/low cost textbooks and instructional materials. Open educational resources (OERs) provide free educational materials you can revise, retain, reuse, remix, and redistribute. This session will identify specific criteria to assist with selecting quality OERs with a research based framework.

Join us for a café conversation about baking in accessibility into your fresh course ideas. (Thursday, Nov. 1 10:10am) 

These ideas are informed by disability laws, access guidelines, and the strategies used to develop an accessible MOOC with the lessons AMAC Accessibility has learned.

A truly accessible course for the widest range of learners is created by baking-in accessibility for people with disabilities.

Sometimes it takes a village. In this interactive session, participants will start with developing the dream Course Team. Participants will then have to develop strategies to launch and reinforce quality assurance. Finally, participants will sample course data at-scale and identify potential points for investigation and course redesign.

Sometimes it takes a village. In this interactive session, participants will start with developing the dream Course Team. Participants will then have to develop strategies to launch and reinforce quality assurance. Finally, participants will sample course data at-scale and identify potential points for investigation and course redesign.

This interactive session will share what instructors at NMSU-A have incorporated into their online classrooms to further engage students in active learning. Incorporating QM Standards has lead to more creative, interactive classrooms that encourage student participation in their own learning. We will provide attendees the opportunity to share what has worked and what has not worked in their own classrooms. This comprehensive list will be shared with any interested participant via email.

This presentation describes the quality assurance (QA) efforts at Sacramento State to establish systematic support of faculty in designing and delivering high quality online and hybrid courses and developing infrastructures to sustain and institutionalize support. Using a logic model and training data, the QA team determined critical inputs and outputs to achieve their goals. A 3-tiered approach was implemented to meet the needs of novice, moderately-experienced, and highly-experienced faculty.

Step into the virtual world! Explore new ways of presenting your learning materials that will appeal to your learners. Be part of the 21st Century innovation. This presentation emphasizes collaboration and discussion. Please come to listen as well as share your thoughts. We will leave the session with possibilities to explore about educational resources. You will be invited to participate in discussions.

Step into the virtual world! Explore new ways of presenting your learning materials that will appeal to your learners. Be part of the 21st Century innovation. This presentation emphasizes collaboration and discussion. Please come to listen as well as share your thoughts. We will leave the session with possibilities to explore educational resources. You will be invited to participate in discussions.