Conference Presentations

Do you have faculty going in a multitude of directions with their online courses? Learn about our initial attempt to guide instructors with a nine-week online faculty development program to help them to transform their face-to-face courses into an online format that follows selected QM Standards. Review literature about evaluating the effectiveness of faculty development programs. Join in a discussion about introducing QM through faculty development and about methods to measure initial program impact.

Drowning in faculty support requests? In the wake of a pandemic, many industries including education have been forced to rethink operational models. Much like a hybrid course model, instructional support services CAN be effectively delivered through a thoughtful blend of in-person & online elements.

Is the development of in-house QM training worth the trouble?  Learn how California Baptist University Online evaluated the effectiveness of its in-house QM training program. Participants will leave with a framework for creating and evaluating an in-house QM training program.

Are high-impact practices really high impact? Ask the undergraduate student presenting her team's research! Session provides materials to embed undergraduate research in online courses and results of research on online learning during the pandemic.

Are you looking to document impact and outcomes? Do you want to design an assessment model around the ROI of professional development and the use of QM design standards? Well, step right up, no lions, no tigers, no bears; just facts, models and approaches to getting you on your way to modelling your efforts and measuring success. This round-table discussion will unfold a successful model and engage others to share ideas on how to implement an approach on their own campuses.

The presenters - Denise Kreiger, instructional designer/technology specialist, and Dr, Mary Chayko, teaching professor and director of undergraduate interdisciplinary studies at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University - collaborated to design/develop a new hybrid course, “Digital Technology and Disruptive Change." They will discuss the course design process that focuses on course alignment (QM standards 2-6) and a hybrid model that can be used for broader applications in diverse disciplines. Students engage in collaborative activities and peer-review using tec

This round-table discussion will address commonly asked questions about research related to Quality Matters. Including information about the QM Research Toolkit, this session may be just what you need to find, use, or begin research that can inform decisions about your QM implementation.

Inside Higher Ed's Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology gauges the views of college faculty members (and their administrative counterparts) on online education
and other issues.

The most recent CHLOE survey updates and expands our picture of how colleges ready their students and faculty for online education through formal preparation and ad hoc measures. The session examines whether these findings influence student outcomes, as reported in earlier CHLOE studies.

We will examine schematics on QM impact and determine how they can be applied.

We will share strategies for changing the institutional culture.

Evaluate the impact of Quality Matters on student engagement in online nursing courses. Student engagement will be compared in traditionally designed online nursing courses versus Quality Matters-designed online nursing courses. This research study is a retrospective data analysis.

You THINK implementing the Quality Matters Program at your institution is positively impacting teaching and learning, but how do you really KNOW? This workshop will help you learn how to assess QM's institutional impacts on a variety of levels including faculty transformation, student success and institutional policies and culture. Examine some schematics on impacts and determine how they can be applied.

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.

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.

Hands-On Labs allows students to replicate tactile lab experiences off-campus by using lab-grade materials in conjunction with a diverse experiment library that spans nine science disciplines.  We will be discussing the challenges of distance laboratories and how to overcome them by demonstrating the student experience with HOL cloud.

In this session a panel of representatives of Online Program Management companies discuss findings on the management of online post-secondary education as revealed in the QM-Eduventures CHLOE 3 Report and their role in supporting higher education institutions.

This interactive and engaging session will focus on how online learning principles, specifically the QM General Standards are applied in the face to face classroom.  Often, face to face courses lack clarity around the QM gold standards of "alignment".  Specifically, course goals, objectives, resources, assessments, learner support, etc. become lost to many students due to the "Sage on the Stage" teaching effect.

Distance education has grown tremendously.  Accompanying this growth is an increase in regulations and standards.  Institutions are asked by accrediting agencies and the federal government to provide evidence that demonstrates adherence to quality standards and compliance with regulations.  In this session attendees will learn how QM activities provide institutions evidence that addresses accreditation requirements and federal regulations.