Conference Presentations

Simple practices make it easier for course designers to create student content use. Use Grackle on documents for accessibility and quick revisions. Learn to design courses with the common thread of improving navigation and usability within the LMS.

Faculty often struggle with how to begin to evaluate alignment in their existing courses. This presentation demonstrates simple tools that any faculty can use when aligning course objectives, unit objectives, and course activities.

You don't want to miss this hands-on, interactive session that enables you to experience simulation learning tools that successfully promotes the accomplishment of course objectives and the improvement of a learner's interaction with the course content.

The amount of information about accessible digital content can be overwhelming. Our panel of higher educators will give you practical tips about slowing the fire hose when your institution is just getting started with accessibility.

In this presentation, we will give you actionable ways to create a more inclusive online course by using language and images that include all learners. We will share examples of student feedback from our courses, workshop examples of updating course language to be more inclusive, and discuss the why behind the changes.

This active learning session shares best practices in facilitating collaborative learning to engage students in various online learning courses. The topics include: effective group management strategies, applying authentic contexts to motivate students, and assessment strategies to measure student achievement of learning outcomes, while assuring student accountability and fair assessment practices. Examples of using AI-assisted grading tools to integrate timely feedback and RSI will be shared.

Quality matters in higher education, but what if your Teaching and Learning Center does not have the resources needed to address today’s teaching and learning needs? You get creative! Come learn how one community college reinvented faculty development, creating a new plan for quality assurance.

Leverage the features in your LMS to meet QM standards on an institutional level allowing faculty to focus on the content standards. An instructional designer, division leadership, faculty from Humanities, Math, and Health Sciences will explain how a college wide approach to meeting standards is saving faculty course representatives time and creating a consistent user experience for all students college wide.

The presentation will focus on enhancing videos in online courses to impact student achievement and overall course quality.  Tools and processes to easily enhance course videos will be demonstrated along with our experience in creating such videos.

Which would you rather have? A great teacher with no industry experience? Or a solid industry expert with no teaching experience? At our top-five public university, we'll take the industry expert with that 423-page PPT every single time. Think about it - who would you take?

What do a Program Director, Director of e-Learning, and Adjunct Professor have in common? A commitment to adjunct instructor success! Examine how to use QM Rubric Standards, professional development, and networks of support to ensure your adjunct faculty soar…and come back for more!

Join us for a discussion of how social media marketing and communications strategies can be used in an academic environment towards a successful implementation of Quality Matters.  We will explore the use of Google+ WordPress, and Twitter and discuss how to build a dedicated academic community.

What do you do when your math courses are your lowest-performing courses AND are inaccessible? Do you rewrite them? Do you remediate them? Do you focus on instructor training? This session will show you how to do all of the above

With standards and technology updates, maintaining the perfect union between an expansive catalog of fully online courses and educator sanity may be a daunting challenge. However, establishing processes for new design and course maintenance that leverages OER and partner resources can help your program sustain a catalog you can love, honor, and cherish for years to come.  Don’t be a Bridezilla. Walk down the aisle of NCVPS’ course update and development process and catch a bouquet of new ideas.  

Do you get confused with General Standard 8? You are not alone! Come learn how to distinguish between the usability and the accessibility aspects. You will be able to apply each Specific Review Standard better and write clear constructive suggestions clearly supported by the Rubric.

Self-study curricular design offers unique opportunities through formative, systematic work using QM Standards during development. The purpose of this session is to propose Scholarship of Teaching and Learning be intentionally integrated into program development.

NC State University's Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) has collaborated with 65 instructors to apply the Quality Matters course design standards to a single online or hybrid course, resulting in QM certification for all submitted courses. To measure the wider impact of participation, we asked faculty to reflect on what they had learned about course design and how they had applied that knowledge in additional courses.

This interactive session equips QM Champions with a practical toolkit to navigate communication across institutional levels. Explore how faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and other staff connect—and sometimes clash—and leave with strategies to align messaging, build understanding, and foster collaboration in your QM journey.  

Are you interested in "new" ways to boost learner engagement in your course? Do you wish you could enhance your course activities but aren't sure where to start? Do you want to create a course that is easy to maintain, AND meets QM Standards? Then this session is for you! Come explore ways to "spice up" your course by incorporating web-based activities. OERs, virtual projects and more while keeping in mind the all-important concept of alignment. These "hot tips" will get you on your way to promoting learner interaction in your courses!