Conference Presentations

How do we ensure academic success for every student? In this presentation, attendees will explore how to use Karaoke and other interactive tools to actively engage students in the learning process.

This session will provide strategies to help the instructor identify creative ways to encourage student engagement.  The session will also show instructors how these activities can be used to vary assessment.  It is believed that the suggested strategies will make the class more interactive and useful for the student. 

Avoid overthinking the online course objectives writing process. Instead, consider a “go to” course alignment matrix resource to help you organize and categorize information needed to align your course content. Identifying your course level and module level objectives as they relate to assessment and instructional materials provides a clear path to alignment. Clear direction is good just as Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”  

More instructors than ever are using OER but may not always use them effectively. Our session provides an overview of best practices for use based on research and experience and includes tips, tricks and tools. No apps need to be downloaded beforehand.

In this short session a variety of communication tools and strategies are shared to better engage students. Participants will share their own. Faculty reported this valuable communication plan helped to develop a student-centered success experience.

The Quality Matters community is growing at an exponential rate as schools reimagine how to infuse quality into the online and hybrid learning experience. But what does an institution do when its supply of QM support is greatly outweighed by faculty and departmental demand? When this occurred at one mid-sized liberal arts HBCU, the institution systematically changed its organizational framework and practices to meet its rapidly increasing needs.

When NCCU's faculty and departmental demand for QM outweighed its supply of trained personnel, the institution systematically changed its organizational framework and practices to meet its rapidly increasing needs. Join us as we explore how this institution utilizes the QM Rubric to scale quality across its curriculum by providing program-specific training, developing high-quality master courses, and empowering faculty as Quality Assurance Ambassadors.

The Quality Matters professional development offerings are excellent, but they aren’t always an option. At Northern Illinois University, we wanted to make sure our time and budget were used efficiently, so we developed a detailed professional development plan that integrates official QM offerings (like APPQMR and PRC) with custom workshops and resources. In this session, we will share our comprehensive 2-year professional development plan combining QM professional development with custom workshops and on-demand resources. We will also share the outcomes from our first year.

This presentation will present a case study of a very large, complex, and well-known financial institution and its transformation into a learning organization using the QM Rubric. The presentation is for new QM practitioners and corporate education professionals who are QM-trained. The goal of the presentation is to demonstrate how QM can help an institution move from "training" to "learning."

Finding quality open educational resources is only part of the challenge when transforming course content using open educational resources.  This interactive session will help you define, locate, and integrate quality open educational resources into your existing courses.

The amount of research on online learning and quality assurance accumulates faster than anyone can keep up with it. In this session, attendees will get a summary of recent research findings on some of today's hot topics related to online learning and quality assurance to see beyond the buzz.

The amount of research on online learning and quality assurance accumulates faster than anyone can keep up with it. In this session, attendees will get a summary of recent research findings on some of today's hot topics related to online learning and quality assurance to see beyond the buzz.

The amount of research on online learning and quality assurance accumulates faster than anyone can keep up with it. In this session, attendees will get a summary of recent research findings on some of today's hot topics related to online learning and quality assurance to see beyond the buzz.

The amount of research on online learning and quality assurance accumulates faster than anyone can keep up with it. In this session, attendees will get a summary of recent research findings on some of today's hot topics related to online learning and quality assurance that will let them see beyond the buzz to what has been found via research - and what has not - in order to put their own online learning and quality assurance agendas and efforts into practice.

Building faculty teams equipped for excellence involves (1) shared vision characterized by clarity and (2) accountability through peer auditors. The outcome of this process, according to surveys, is overwhelmingly positive for the student community.

What will quality synchronous online learning look like now that ERL is nearing its end? Come share your ideas and experiences as we learn about the rich history of synchronous learning, and discuss opportunities for elevating quality in synchronous design and teaching.