Do you struggle with student engagement in your online synchronous classes? Do you wish your online class could use more active learning techniques, but you do not know where to start? During this session, simple, practical strategies will be shared that can be used to foster student engagement in synchronous online classes (and asynchronous too). The presenter has taught online large classes synchronously and asynchronously for more than a decade, and will share the class-tested strategies she uses to energize online classes.
Participants will examine the advantages of a mentee-mentor relationship and how the QM framework formed a bridge between a small and medium-sized institution. Participants will gain strategies for using QM to form successful inter-institutional partnerships that are mutually beneficial.
Oregon State’s Ecampus has been on a transformative journey toward quality in distance education for over 20 years. The QM Higher Education Rubric and the rollout of our QM initiative helped us cultivate a culture of quality, which has grown and which we continue to nurture.
Are you just starting a quality assurance program at your university? Or perhaps you implemented Quality Matters but do not know how to increase adoption university-wide. Join the Florida State University team to learn about how we started small and built a Quality Initiative that spans the entire university. We will discuss how we have scaled up from internal reviews to full subscriber-managed QM reviews, moving from around 10 courses per year to rotating cycles with 20-25 courses per cycle.
Quality Matters certification ensures high standards for online courses. However, what if the institution is unable to financially afford certification for all online courses? This panel will share the story of how one college created an internal review process based on QM.
Quality Matters certification ensures high standards for online courses. However, what if the institution is unable to financially afford certification for all online courses? The panel shares the story of how one college created an internal review process based on QM.
In this session, we expand the scope of accessibility by examining online course design to accommodate neurodivergent learners. Challenges such as sensory overload and executive functioning difficulties will be addressed. We will also consider strategies such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL), flexible engagement, and tools for time management. Key goals include fostering a sense of belonging, amplifying student voices, and collaborating with stakeholders. This session aims to promote equity and improve learning outcomes for all learners.
In the spirit of continuous improvement in quality assurance, a collaboration was created that included professionals from a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and a mid-sized Catholic University. The main focus was the design and delivery of culturally informed online learning experiences. Presenters will share successes in enrollment from two different institution types, particularly showcasing that academic innovation can come from any institution size or classification.
This session will share ways in which the California State University system has developed a mature and robust QM-based-program for assessing and recognizing blended-online courses, as well as a repository of objectives-indexed exemplars for adoption by other faculty or for modeling by instructional support staff. Resulting resources will be shared with participants via open access. Discussion of how best to implement and accomplish these campus-system outcomes will be encouraged and facilitated and participants will certainly have much to offer.
In this presentation, we identify cultural aspects that affect course design, we discuss best design practices based on our experience relative to issues of gender, diversity, and inclusion, and we debate some of the pitfalls during the course design process that can arise due to cultural misconceptions.
In a continually shifting climate of higher education, academic drift is a common and often potentially insidious challenge. Without program faculty (or university administration) even noticing, the focus of activities, assessments, and even courses applied to an academic degree program can gradually shift away from the intended outcomes.
In a continually shifting climate of higher education, academic drift is a common and often potentially insidious challenge. Without program faculty (or university administration) even noticing, the focus of activities, assessments, and even courses applied to an academic degree program can gradually shift away from the intended outcomes.
Participants will learn about our institution's Affordability Counts program and how it has impacted course material cost in our courses. Let’s discuss how to design your course with both cost and quality in mind, and the resources at your disposal.
This presentation highlights the role of LMS templates in promoting student success by focusing on research-backed benefits. We will share data from a survey of 306 respondents, showing how templates can enhance student engagement, self-efficacy, and motivation. Additionally, we will explore how templates impact faculty, making online teaching more efficient. The survey data also reveals insights into institutional practices around templates, quality standards, and the flexibility to modify templates
Are you drowning in institutional or LMS data? Have you considered collecting feedback from students or faculty but aren't sure where to start? In this session we'll discuss how to collect, analyze and use data for continuous improvement.
Are you drowning in institutional or LMS data? Have you considered collecting feedback from students or faculty but aren't sure where to start? In this session we'll discuss how to collect, analyze and use data for continuous improvement.
In 2019, Quality Matters published the Academic Rigor white paper series that provided an observable definition of rigor, distinguishing teachers’ and learners’ responsibilities, disentangling academic rigor from the curriculum and from student learning, and leveraging objective evidence to document rigor so it can be improved upon.
Our way to ensure measurable and meaningful student learning outcomes across a higher education program is for the faculty to work together. We utilize backward design in a collaborative process that ensures all program outcomes are addressed.
The Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) gathered leading CBE program designers and experts in accreditation and quality assessment to create the Quality Standards for Competency-Based Programs. Join some of these experts to learn about the Standards and how to apply them in a CBE program.
