2017 QM Connect Conference

Is your institution or program interested in QM Program Review? Are you prepared for the review process? For your new journey, the panel in this session will answer questions, share their experience, and clarify the potential myths through a fun discussion.

Information technology is rapidly changing the way faculty and universities engage learners to ensure student success. The availability of new tools—adaptive learning, early alerts, predictive analytics—offers on demand insights and allows for personalized interventions from educators. The push for personalization challenges notions around quality. Most quality assurance is built around designing for a course or activity versus around student centered design. In this session, we will explore how faculty and advisors are using data to redesign classes.

As those of us well versed in QM know, the primary focus of the rubric is design. While quality design is an essential component of a quality online program, it is not the only component required to achieve overall quality assurance. Those of us who have taken the APPQMR would also recognize the pie image that is a trademark training piece of this workshop. While participants of the APPQMR are made aware of the fact that QM does not try to address all pieces of the pie, they are often hear about how the other pieces could be effectively addressed.

Presenters:

Brett Christie & Ashley Skylar (California State University System); Elizabeth McMahon (Minnesota Online Quality Initiative);  Steve Kaufman, University of Akron & Bethany Simunich, Kent State (The Ohio QM Consortium)

Facilitator:  Kay Shattuck, Quality Matters 

Via short presentations from three statewide systems:

•Identify similarities and differences among systems that might influence inputs, outputs, and outcomes

Data on QM implementation: statewide systems have a lot of it. See how data needs are determined by their desired outcomes, what is collected and tracked - and how. Leave with plans for your own system's meaningful data collection.

Presenters:  Brett Christie & Ashley Skylar (California State University System);  Elizabeth McMahon (Minnesota Online Quality Initiative);  Steve Kaufman, University of Akron & Bethany Simunich, Kent State (The Ohio QM Consortium);  Facilitator: Kay Shattuck, Quality Matters

Are you interested in meeting QM Standard 8.3 by improving the accessibility of your course syllabus? Join me for this hands-on session where we'll explore the accessibility features in Microsoft Word.   You'll have plenty of practice time during the session, so please bring your own computer.  Included for your information is a link to WA SBCTC's Access 101: Introduction to Accessibility Training Course Materials

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.

This round-table discussion will address commonly asked questions about research related to Quality Matters. Including information about the QM Research Toolkit, this session may be just what you need to find, use, or begin research that can inform decisions about your QM implementation.

This study of full-time faculty from a large HE system explored faculty perception of impact on students and possible changes to teaching strategies (online and f2f), and asked about preferences related to professional development regarding participation in an official QM course review.

Reliable evidence of student learning depends on assessments that are seamlessly aligned with learning outcomes and activities. In this session, participants will explore how a strategic
performance-based approach to course design has enabled one college to meet QM Standards.