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Prepare to hit the trail: Successful QM Implementation Strategies

 Implementing Quality Matters for your institution may initially seem like a clear and easy choice. If you're like us, you want to ensure the quality and continual improvement of your online and hybrid course offerings. You may have reviewed QM alternatives and considered feedback from faculty who have experience with other models. Now that you've chosen to pursue the implementation of QM at your institution, maybe you've realized that there's more to this implementation process than you initially thought.

Preparing for a Formal QM Review: Comparing 3 Models

How do you ensure consistent quality in formative, internal reviews? A full QM review is a significant investment of time and funds -- How can you be confident that a course and a faculty member are “ready” before they go up for a full review? This situation is faced by many QM institutions. In this moderated panel, QM Coordinators from three universities (New Mexico State, Texas A&M International, and Indiana) will compare and contrast how they have approached this challenge.

Preparing for the Next Version of the QM Rubric: A Look at the Most Recent Original Research

The QM RubricTM was developed and continues to be informed by independent and QM-funded research.  The QM Research Colleagues will lead an interactive session revealing the most recent research (2011-to date) that is emerging that might impact the next edition of the QM Rubric.   Each RC will briefly describe a most interesting research studies and explain why she thinks it is an exciting study.    A concluding general session will outline talking points about the most recent educational research.

Preparing Teachers for Virtual Learning: How to Accomplish the Task with Badges and Certificates

Very few teacher preparation programs, even those offered online, have included instruction for teacher candidates to teach or design courses or lessons for K-12 online schooling. Recent state regulations in some states now require preservice teachers to have this training. Join us to find out how a professional development model was developed using badges and certificates to accomplish this requirement. 

Prioritizing SEL in an Online Environment: Tips for Administrators

Social Emotional Learning isn't just something that is designed and developed in a course. It takes active training and a set of skills with an online educator to know what "just-in-time" supports are needed for students. Learn how Virtual Arkansas has taken the course-embedded elements of SEL and brought them full circle through leveraging all forms of communication in their courses with their teachers' learner-centric approach and systematic steps to interact, invest, and maximize every opportunity to support and build capacity in students.

Professional Development Matters: Enhancing Quality Assurance Across a Multi-College Institution

The Colorado Community College System developed a set of QA standards based on the QM Rubric. Ensuring that system colleges implement the standards is a challenge due to differing college resources and other factors. A cross-college work group developed professional development resources to support college buy-in, create flexible opportunities for customization, and build momentum toward a robust system-wide QA implementation plan. We will showcase these PD resources, contextualizing them as milestones toward system goals.

Program Title: Through the Looking Glass: Examining QM through Different Lenses in the development of an online EMBA

 

In this session, a case study of online program development and implementation of the QM process from inception to review is presented.  The importance of leveraging university, college and faculty support at all stages of development, delivery and review are specifically addressed.  Best practices as well as hurdles encountered are discussed. Through the collaboration of all groups, a nationally ranked program (Top 25 Online EMBA programs by US News and World Report) was developed, delivered and maintained using the QM framework.

Project Management as a Tool for Instructional Design Teams

The role of project management has been growing in many industries, especially as the needs of remote environments (whether classrooms or offices) continue to grow. What role can project management play for instructional designers? In this presentation, the Coordinator of Course Development for Launch (operating out of Springfield Public Schools in Missouri) discusses how project management has helped her team of instructional designers and quality assurance specialists.

Promoting Competency-Based Learning in a Hybrid Research Methods Course

This session will provide a discussion and evaluation of the redesign of an upper-level hybrid research methods course intended to enhance students’ mastery of written communication and critical thinking skills. The hybrid format offers unique opportunities for providing feedback and continued practice, and the course redesign involved the use of online resources and incorporating learning activities aimed at engaging students. Both direct and indirect evidence of student learning suggest that this interactive approach is effective at promoting competency-based learning.

Promoting Quality Course Design using Master Course Shells

As we migrate from D2L to Canvas, the Digital Learning Innovation Team at UW Superior realized it was an opportunity to promote quality course design based on student engagement research using Master Course Shells.  Our team has developed training that supports using Quality Matters (QM) principles in course design.  Included in the training is an opportunity for departments to adopt a course template that we have developed based on UDL principles and QM. Many departments have adopted the template to develop a Master Course Shell for courses.

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights : Making Online Courses Comply with QM Standard 4.3

Standard 4.3 in the QM Rubric emphasizes the importance of acknowledging “previously published, instructor created materials, journal articles, publisher materials, textbooks, images, graphic materials, tables, videos, audio recordings, websites, slides, and other forms of multimedia.” (Annotation, 6th edition QM Rubric). You will practice ways of “modeling” these concepts in this session.

Pushing Boundaries: Are You Flexible Enough to Personalize

Information technology is rapidly changing the way faculty and universities engage learners to ensure student success. The availability of new tools—adaptive learning, early alerts, predictive analytics—offers on demand insights and allows for personalized interventions from educators. The push for personalization challenges notions around quality. Most quality assurance is built around designing for a course or activity versus around student centered design. In this session, we will explore how faculty and advisors are using data to redesign classes.

Put on Your Cultural Glasses and Jump! Transforming Regular Assignments into Active Learning Experience

Active learning research demonstrated that by adding student agency, peer review and reflection, collaboration and cultural awareness, students learning is greatly enhanced in terms of motivation, engagement and learning outcome. Adjusting the assignment to be culturally responsive is like putting on a pair of cultural glasses, and adding agency, reflection and collaboration to the assignment is like taking 3 jumps in the transforming process.

Putting Data to Work to Close Student Achievement Gaps

Idaho Digital Learning Alliance (IDLA) has developed a system to deliver data nudges to the right person, at the right time, in the right place, and for the right reasons to be a potent change agent. Data nudges are proactive ways of providing actionable alerts to parents, students, and teachers. Examples include when students fall behind, have late assignments, or have otherwise been identified as "At Risk" for failing. This nudging system, which we call Clarity, is helping us to assist students and close student achievement gaps proactively.

QM & Faculty: Internal QM Partnership - Our Why, What and How

In a large unionized higher education setting, hear how this team has developed a process to educate and motivate faculty toward an appreciation and application of QM Standards.   The presenters will share several tools that support this partnership building, including an internal review tool.  Participants will be actively engaged in constructing their own internal partnership process that can be used at their institution.