Conference Presentations

GA Southern University launched a QM internal course review pilot in Spring 2015 consisting of 10 teams from 9 disciplines. After course reviews were completed, the teams were asked to write a reflection piece of their experience of the review process. They then shared their reflections with the campus during a poster session for a QM Course Review Showcase. This presentation analyzes those reflections and presents the themes that emerged.

Quality Matters (QM) standards aim to enhance student learning through the quality assurance of online courses. This study tries to answer the question whether faculty training on QM standards enhances online course design as perceived by students in terms of learning objective, instructional material, learner engagement, outcome assessment and course technology.

Do you still have faculty trying to teach online classes the same way they teach F2F classes? It is not the same! Training prior to teaching is imperative. How can it be accomplished? Expand the possibilities on your campus and hear how this small CC campus handles training with limited resources.

Are your learning objectives not quite feeling right? Perhaps you have some fake objectives? Or maybe the alignment is upside down?  Let us help you identify topics, assessments, activities, and instructional materials masquerading as objectives and evaluate upside-down alignment.

Grab your accreditation surfboard and ride the wave to QM implementation with us!  From the experience of a mid-size, underfunded state institution, hear how QM has become a beacon of quality assurance across the university.

Join us as we share our process for training and supporting new online faculty within the context of QM's Standards.

Join us as we share our process for training and supporting new online faculty within the context of QM's Standards.

Join us as we share our process for training and supporting new online faculty within the context of QM's Standards.

Walk around the edge of the QM Research pool to see what it looks like - and then dive in for a true understanding of what's under the surface. Get comfortable in the water so you can take a dip whenever you like.

This session will focus on design & delivery techniques to better gather and use feedback in your online class. We'll cover: 1) individual feedback ideas for engagement and connection, 2) time-saving ideas for group feedback and auto-feedback, 3) soliciting feedback for continous improvement, and 4) using the feedback loop for "just-in-time" online teaching strategies.

Students value individualized and timely feedback. However, suboptimal course design can limit instructors' ability to meet feedback expectations. 

This presentation focuses on designing courses using feeding cycles, which leverage feedforward to make room for high quality feedback.

To promote compliance with accessibility mandates, we developed a workflow to provide timely, accurate and cost-effective closed captioning for instructional materials.  We share details about this process, and data about significant benefits of the captioning for ALL students.

Wouldn't it be great to be a new college? Distance learning courses, proactively designed from scratch to meet accessibility standards, would eliminate terms like "legacy course" and "faculty buy-in".  Imagine a world where WCAG did not require a Google search on acronyms.

Trying to determine what professional development (PD) opportunities best meet faculty and staff needs? This session can help! Join QM's Senior Manager of PD and a Dean of eLearning + QM Coordinator with a wealth of experience in this area as they guide you through: the different pathways available for QM professional development, how QM PD can aid your implementation journey and support your goals, and how to choose the right PD (at the right time) for your faculty and staff needs.

Adoption of QM can be challenging in smaller, private institutions, which value academic freedom. A potential untapped leverage is in health science programs.  We will discuss an institution initiative, successes and strategies to increase adoption.

Are you fully utilizing QM reporting tools? Let's discuss how to use standard and customizable QM reporting tools to keep track of professional development, course reviews, and QM role holders to support and evaluate your implementation efforts.

For many faculty members, the very thought of teaching online raises alarms and defenses. However, even in seated classes in today's world, we can all benefit from learning and instituting the principals of quality online course design. A team consisting of a Director of Online Learning and two faculty members will lead this fun discussion that will help rescue and respect faculty prone to resist. This session is aimed at anyone who can have an impact on faculty members in higher education.

Research shows that a higher intensity of engagement leads to greater performance in online classes. But how can we verify this at our own institutions? What types of data can support this research and how do we access it?

Have you ever found yourself writing the exact same comment on every assignment submitted by the same student throughout the semester?  Let's talk about it and how we can create effective feedback and get students to use it!