Videos have become a cornerstone of online courses, with stakeholders such as instructors, instructional designers, and students offering a range of perspectives on the elements that make them compelling. This study examined these diverse viewpoints, Aiming to uncover disparities and commonalities. Its primary focus is to pinpoint the best practices for creating and curating instructional videos, a crucial endeavor in the realm of online education.
Explore how integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) principles enhances the usability and effectiveness of online lectures, promoting inclusive and engaging learning experiences.
Sneak quality assurance into faculty development to help instructors design quality courses even before deciding to teach online. Ensure quality through consistent exposure to LMS templates and workshops infused with QM principles, while avoiding a prescriptive approach to course design.
Sneak quality assurance into faculty development to help instructors design quality courses even before deciding to teach online. Ensure quality through consistent exposure to LMS templates and workshops infused with QM principles, while avoiding a prescriptive approach to course design.
See how Blackhawk Technical College is aligning three of their campus star solutions to enhance course design and promote student engagement and success for online and blended courses. Their stars are: Blackboard Learning Management System, WIDS - Worldwide Instructional Design System, and the Quality Matters Rubric.
Student evaluation data is wonderful. It's but one measure of course quality. Discover how student behavioral data in the learning management system can provide clear and positive impact of QM review on online courses.
Faculty resistance to using the QM Rubric is often framed in the context of "Academic Freedom" however, the QM Rubric supports faculty choice and academic freedom. Join us for this interactive session that will give instructional designers techniques and tactics to overcome this common objection to using the QM Rubric.
There are many factors to consider when addressing resistance to quality assurance in online education. This session will identify some primary factors and strategies to consider when addressing quality assurance with faculty. In addition, the session will highlight personal experiences and how educational field-specific frameworks have assisted in addressing quality assurance resistance. We will also review what factors to consider when assisting faculty with course design, course reviews, and providing educational technology tool consultation.
In this session, we will discuss the roadblocks that we faced at a two-year college as we tried to adopt Quality Matters, and some of the solutions we implemented to overcome these roadblocks.
Quality Matters conducts multiple professional development workshops aimed at improving online course design. Workshop participants who also teach face-to-face often report that their workshop experiences have had a beneficial effect on their face-to-face teaching. This session will present preliminary results from a research project that investigated ways in which participation in a QM professional development program has had an impact on an instructor's teaching across different delivery formats.
Let's promote QM to the world! Let's chat about leveraging institutional professional development, QM professional development, conferences/meetings, and communication tools to grow excitement for implementing QM on your campus and beyond.
This session will explore the intersection of faculty development and the implementation of Quality Matters at a public higher education institution. It offers a comprehensive overview of how a data-driven approach can be leveraged to enhance faculty development programs and effectively integrate the QM framework in course design to impact student learning. The presentation will provide actionable takeaways and best practices for using data to evaluate faculty development and QM implementation.
This session highlights ways to expand equitable access to Career and Technical Education opportunities by exploring a new, innovative military career pathway. Attendees will learn about the pathway creation process, best practices for sustainable curriculum development, and strategies for engaging underserved students in niche options only available to well-resourced schools.
Actual pathways expedite transmission along a given route, whether a trail through the forest, the organizational chart in a company, or the synergy that occurs when two or more concepts align. Connections are the true foundation of learning. In this session we'll explore the connections that motivate learners, advance concepts, and integrate learning systems and how these connected pathways contribute to enriching the foundation for learning.
Does your institution struggle with the “best” method to assess student writing? We will compare the processes and results of three methods used to assess student writing at the institution level, including a new LMS tool, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.Does your institution struggle with the “best” method to assess student writing? We will compare the processes and results of three methods used to assess student writing at the institution level, including a new LMS tool, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Universities with limited resources to commit to online learning may find the peer mentor model a helpful means to lay the groundwork for increased institutional support, as well as a means of engaging faculty in the online/hybrid program development process.
This presentation shares the initial results of a QM funded research project empirically examing Texas A&M University-Central Texas' internal peer review processes and their associated training and faculty involvement, to determine their effectiveness and utility in improving the online components of online courses to meet nationally recognized QM standards. The research also applied the "Theory of Planned Behavior" to examine the faculty's attitudes, beliefs and norms underlying their participation in the peer review process.
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.
Start with tools that already meet Standards, rather than choosing tools that you "hope" meet Standards or ones that certainly don't. Join us to explore a list of web-based technologies and tools that meet QM Standards for privacy, accessibility, currency, engagement, and obtainability, and learn how these tools are used in the online classroom.
