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QM Standard 3 (K-12): Coach Meta-Cognition in Highly Interactive Asynchronous Discussion Boards

Join two instructional designers from different states in a conversation about how to coach learners of all ages on the use of age-appropriate meta-cognition in highly interactive asynchronous discussion boards. Innovative "best practices" will be sought and incorporated into the conversation to facilitate real-time dialogue.

QM Standards:Student Feedback on Course Design

The purpose of this research was to assess large online course design based on the QM Higher Education Rubric Standards from a student perspective. Students were surveyed based on the Specific Standards within the Rubric. Students were asked to provide feedback on the Specific Standards by rating whether the Standard was not met, was met, or exceeded all expectations. The goal was to improve the course design and teaching within the course.

QM's New Teaching Online Certificate

Quality Matters is beginning to address other aspects of the quality online learning experience. The new Teaching Online Certificate from Quality Matters is built on validated online instructor competencies and includes a series of seven workshops. Instructors who complete the workshops will build a portfolio of evidence of their online teaching competence, culminating with the award of the Online Teaching Certificate upon completion of all seven workshops. Each workshop completion is recognized with a digital credential that is connected to evidence of competence.

Quality Assurance: A Webbed Approach

This session will discuss how to implement a quality assurance program that is based upon the Quality Matters Rubric and structured using a webbed approach to expand the impact across campus. Specific examples of the implementation process at a large university will be shared. Participants will leave the session with recommendations on how to implement a similar approach on their campuses.

Quality Conversations in Assessment

In this session, participants will learn about the quality assessment review process used at Western Governors University to evaluate the quality of objective and performance-based assessments, which are used as sole indicators of student competence. The convergence of the three key teams of program management, performance feedback, and psychometrics has resulted in a continuous improvement model shared by diverse units. Identifying assessment priorities is often a challenge in educational organizations.

Quality Talks: Standard 5.3

In this series of Quality Talks, presenters will demonstrate how they design courses to meet QM Specific Standard 5.3. The presenters will have only five minutes to explain their approach; therefore session participants will get to see four different ways to approach this Standard. Participants in this session will be able to vote on the best Quality Talk of the session.

Eddie Andreo

Lisa Clark

Belle Cowden

Steven Crawford

JJ Johnson

Lisa Kidder

Quality Talks: Standard 5.3

Description In this series of Quality Talks, presenters will demonstrate how they design courses to meet QM Specific Standard 5.3. The presenters will have only five minutes to explain their approach; therefore session participants will get to see four different ways to approach this Standard.

Raising the Bar: Leveraging Innovation to Extend Standard 8 and Advance Accessibility

One size does not fit all. This idea is especially true when designing an online course for maximum accessibility. How can we help educators power up in areas of accessible online course design in order to create a more effective learning environment for all students? Come to this session to find out how many paths we can discover to reach the same outcome. This conversation started before the presentation using the #QMPBJ hashtag on Twitter. Presenters: Renee Petrina & Anna Lynch of Indiana University's eLearning Design & Services

See Stars: Making Astronomy Classes Accessible to Visually Impaired Students

Physics instructor has worked for a full year with Distance Education's Accessibility team, to make his NASA grant funded, online Astronomy courses (PHY 121, 122 and 123) accessible to students with disabilities. His biggest challenge was how to make his courses accessible to visually impaired students.

We have worked with the library to order books and tactile graphics; we have printed tactile graphics from NASA; we have looked into sonification, and added audio description to video.

Standard Three Deep Dive: Alternative and Authentic Assessments

Assessment is a complex subject and can take many forms. Used appropriately, assessments align with course objectives and ensure those objectives are met. Which types of assessment are most appropriate? And at what time should they be administered? How can low stakes assessments be used to build mastery and confidence? How does peer assessment fit into an overall assessment strategy? How can we measure a student's ability to demonstrate real-world skills? Join us to discuss timing, strategies, techniques, and examples participants can use in their own course design.

The Crooked Alignment: Ensuring Learning Objectives and Assessments Align

Have participants encountered challenges making sure assessments align with the stated learning objectives? Or have they been part of a review and didn't quite know how to provide a helpful recommendation about misalignment? Then let's "hang out" during this interactive session to discuss tips on ensuring alignment between learning objectives and assessments, share with the group recommendations and experiences in addressing misalignment, and leave with several new ideas and answers to take back to the workplace!

The Impact of QM: Before and After

Are you considering implementation of QM?  Is your leadership or faculty questioning the significance of QM?  In three years New Mexico State University Alamogordo has gone from having no courses designed around the QM Standards to 100% of its courses designed around the QM Standards.  Hear what the impact of QM has been for online students, for face-to-face students, and for the institution as a whole.  The team responsible for the success will share the distance education picture before QM and the picture now that QM is fully implemented.  Quantitative and qualita

The Information Literacy Project: Using QM to Achieve QA in Library Instruction

The Information Literacy Project is a collaborative effort between librarians and instructional designers to increase undergraduate students' ability to retrieve, evaluate, and use information with proficiency. The project is comprised of six, self-paced online learning modules that are used to supplement learning experiences in online, blended, and on-ground courses. This session will showcase the project, describe the design process, highlight challenges and solutions in addressing QM, and explain significant changes that were made to improve the design.

The Online Course Combo: Robotic Telepresence Simulation, E-Simulation, and Video Simulation with QM Seasoning

Simulation, common in face-to-face environments, is a means to reproduce clinical situations to facilitate critical thinking. This learning strategy in the form of e-simulations, staged video-simulation, and simulation via robotic telepresence can create an equal learning opportunity for distance nursing students. An established departmental (nursing) online course template, aligned with the QM Rubric for higher education, set the standard for the adoption of various simulation entities.