2020 QM ConnectLX

This session explores the use of LMS with an innovative training approach using the TPACK model to build faculty technical skills and pedagogical knowledge while remaining contextually relevant to their discipline. It seeks to help institutions with faculty/teacher development efforts.

Courses become journeys into content for many learners.  Come experience how to map out and align their journey through your course by using a course mapping strategy!  Tools and explanations will be provided for participants to create a course map.

In the wake of COVID-19, this mid-sized community college built capacity across campus constituencies in which many faculty had never operated outside their technical classroom where we moved instruction and operations fully online. We will share our professional development mobilization plan in which we built the capacity of remote instruction and learning by training more than 300 faculty, staff, student instructors, and tutors through emergency training in one week with follow-on training and support throughout the pandemic.

Post-secondary students often find pursuing a degree online becomes cumbersome because of the complex support services provided. This session explores QM's Online Learner Support Certification and how it can make a difference in student experience.

The QM model is designed to infuse quality into the online classroom. This model is almost foolproof. The word “almost” is important. The instructor plays an important role in completing the quality assurance of the online course. At any time during the semester, the instructor can metaphorically derail students’ learning experiences. The following is a case study of how one instructor inadvertently lost track of the quality of her online students.

QM’s Online Learner Support Criteria 1 addresses the presence of “Direct and indirect support for online learners and should include remote access to academic advising.”  In this poster session, we will share a unique Graduation Team Model wherein collaboration between academic advising and faculty members foster the creation of proactive strategies that provide an individualized best-fit (“glass slipper”) student support plan.

Overheard: "I'm an expert at using active learning. My students tell me so in my course evaluations." We'll straighten this out with an active learning building block approach. Come ready to participate and leave with strategies and resources.

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.

Designed for faculty, staff, and administrators relatively new
to QM. Come for a quick introduction of QM, how it works, what's in it for institutions, and how QM can support efforts to help students succeed.

This session will share efforts to scale up PD opportunities for faculty at the system and campus level during COVID. Results gathered from a 29-item COVID faculty survey will be shared along with campus qualitative student feedback results.