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Supporting Diverse Learners: Text, Images, Documents, PDFs, & Tables Oh My!!

Equity and access are two main themes that are found throughout the General Standard 8 Specific Review Standards (SRS). SRS 8.3 is a complex essential standard that requires text and images in files, documents, LMS pages, and web pages to meet the needs of diverse learners.  Between the requirements for properly formatting basic images, complex charts, graphs, and infographics, along with tables, documents, PDFs, and different aspects of text, there is a lot to consider when designing digital instructional content.

Supporting Executive Functioning in College Courses with QM Standards

To succeed in college and beyond, students must learn to think critically, make the right decisions, and regulate their behavior. These aspects of cognition depend on executive functioning (EF) - central processes executed in the frontal lobe of the brain. Together we will explore how to use Quality Matters (QM) Standards to create courses that effectively support EF. ­­You will learn about strategies and technology tools that can support EF in face-to-face or online college courses.

Supporting Student Learning: How SEL Drives Learning Success

The business of schools can be summed up in two words-- relationships and learning. As SEL core competencies---self-management, self-awareness, responsible decision-making, relationship skills, and social awareness skills---are intentionally embedded into classroom learning---whether virtual or face-to-face, educators are equipping students with skills that encourage their social development and draw them into the process of learning that promotes their desire to learn.

Systemwide Support for Development of Quality Initiatives MATTERS! Backing Campuses to Implement QM

The California State University system implemented an approach to engage faculty in redesigning their courses for the 21st century learner. Components of the approach include supporting faculty to share course redesign models, facilitating discipline-based cohorts and a QA community of practice, and supporting campuses in implementing various quality assurance efforts. This session will share the systemwide approach for supporting campuses in launching Quality Assurance activities and three campuses will share their approaches for implementing QM on their campus.

Tailoring to fit: Selling ideas for what's possible in online teaching

How many times have you heard, “I just don’t see how it’s possible to do XYZ online”? Join us as we wield powerful strategies to debunk this misconception through case studies illustrating real reformatting situations in higher education. Then we’ll make it personal by offering solutions to our own design challenges. You’ll leave with a productive set of tools and resources to prove that it’s not only possible to do XYZ online, but that it may be impossible to do it any other way from now on.

Take the Next Step with a QM Faculty Learning Community

Many faculty at this institution have completed the APPQMR training, yet seem unable to take the next step. A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) was created, giving faculty a place to discuss how to revise their courses to meet Quality Matters Standards. Learn more about the FLC structure, meeting agendas, materials used, and results. Participants will also be provided with several of the tools and resources that were developed for this Faculty Learning Community and will leave with a template for creating an FLC at their schools.

Taming the Lions, Tigers, and Bears of Online Course Management

There is never enough time. Even with a well-designed course, the management of an online course can eat up a lot of time. Then there are the emails… While you will continue to receive emails, there are strategies you can explore to help you reign in those management tasks that take you away from engaging with your students and providing meaningful feedback on their work. 

Taming the Tiger: When new Educational Paradigms Roar

Mayhem and Madness. Making the fast and furious shift to Emergency Remote Learning has brought new challenges for us all. The quick response from the educational community has been heroic, and we've risen to the occasion, but what's next? It's time to reflect on what we've learned and transforming from Emergency Remote Instruction to longer term quality online learning. Find out how K-12 schools and districts are meeting the challenge.

Targeting Program Design Certification: Leveraging Quality Matters Standards for Program Continuous Improvement

With an institutional goal of demonstrating academic excellence through program-level accreditation/certification, but without an accrediting body for the MS in Educational Psychology - Experimental Psycholgy Program, we are looking to QM to help us ensure the quality of this online degree. We are implementing multiple program-level revisions and building evidence to support an application for QM Program Design Certification. This QM-driven initiative extends QM Standards "upward" to program-level continuous improvement processes.

Teaching in the Tower of Babel: Creating World Language/English Language Learning Activities

Do you find world language and English as a new language courses tricky to design? We can help! Bring your smartphone/device with you to explore OER activities and tools aligned to common language objectives in this highly interactive session.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to . . .