Part 1: What does "Academic Rigor" mean to you and your institution? Explore the definition of academic rigor and its role in education during Part 1 of "What's Rigor Got to do with It?". Through panel and small group discussions, you'll come away with an understanding of various interpretations of academic rigor, how institutions address the topic, and what role academic rigor plays in a quality education.
Join an expedition on a mission to blaze uncommon paths to quality. Your Paths-Less-Traveled Toolkit will introduce online tools and innovative uses of traditional LMS tools for building highly interactive classes with multi-level group engagement. #QMConnectPaths
As part of a well-developed process of course design, Quality Reviews are integral to ensuring courses are designed & developed in a way that empowers learners & faculty to thrive while meeting new & existing criteria and standards of the institution. QM provides a great framework to use in a localized quality assurance process: the Quality Review. Accelerated online programs are growing at rapid rates; it’s important we identify ways to enhance the learner experience and ensure high levels of quality are in all our courses: Quality Reviews help us get there.
This highly engaging and thought-provoking session explores extant research targeting autistic online learners and offers QM-inspired recommendations for supporting these exceptional students to promote inclusive, neurodiverse online environments.
The "Cornerstones of Quality" initiative addresses a lack of formal standards for our online courses, while also establishing standards to evaluate online faculty performance. Our four "Cornerstones" include Quality in Design, Course Management, Course Content, and Online Preparedness.
Cartographers can't have all the fun! Learn and better understand how alignment starts and stops with the clarity of curriculum maps and the assessment tools to measure accuracy and drive continuous curricular improvement.
After this session, participants will be able to . . .
Describe the relationship between assessment and curriculum mapping.
Co-presenters: Dr. Melissa Burton-Williams and Dr. Peggy Simpson
This introduction to easily implemented, accessible design strategies will help you meet the needs of students with disabilities and improve the user experience for all students by making smart decisions about headings, font style and size, white space, and contrast.
After this session, participants will be able to . . .
Identify accessible visual design strategies.
This session will offer a quick presentation on the hints, tips, and tricks that one organization has gleaned on its journey to accessibility.
After this session, participants will be able to . . .
Discover free or low-cost tools and techniques that will help design teams build accessible courses.
Presenters: Kristi Peacock & Krista Tomaselli
This session will offer a quick presentation on the hints, tips, and tricks that one organization has gleaned on its journey to accessibility.
Twitter is the largest Professional Learning Network in existence, and we need to get QM attendees plugged in. What does #QMConnect mean??? Come find out and learn how to keep up to date with @QMProgram all year long. We will also discuss whom to follow, Twitter tips, and more. Join the #QMConnect discussion.
After this session, participants will be able to . . .
Are you an online introvert? Do you feel shy getting to know your students online, or are your students already in a cohort and you are the new kid on the block? This session will show some quick tips and tricks for online introductions, icebreakers, and team-building techniques.
The journey from a "No Template LMS Template" to a "One-Stop-Shop": the trials, errors, and progress in continuous improvement for meeting General Standard 7 Learner Support - plus a few others - in all courses in a multi-campus institution.
After this session, participants will be able to . . .
Identify strengths and weaknesses of a one-stop-shop approach to General Standard 7 Learner Support.
This five-minute presentation will help you visualize how alignment has the power to make visible the interconnection between outcomes, materials, assignments, and assessments, providing fluidity to the design process and structural integrity to the final product.
After this session, participants will be able to . . .
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
Join our University System Quality Matters Council during this highly engaging panel and explore the nuances of establishing a model for inter-institutional collaboration in the pursuit of ensuring system-wide equity and quality in online learning.
Join us to discuss how a rapid prototyping model can be paired with QM to design quality online courses in a hurry. We will also share how we prioritize enhancements and use an iterative design strategy to achieve continuous improvement over time.
Learn from our experiences and walk away with a clear picture of how blended learning with online teachers is successfully meeting the needs of students across an entire state.
Quality is perceived as intrinsically connected to cost and access, as defined in the eternal triangle concept; that is, an increase on one side of the triangle necessitates adjustments in the other two with at least one of those being decreased. The Iron Triangle has been related to education in that increasing quality of education increases cost and therefore would greatly reduce access to education. Technology is suggested as a way to break, or at least add flexibility to the iron triangle. But, from whose viewpoint and how?
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