Conference Presentations

Instructors who are planning to teach online for the first time are invited to participate in a series of foundational online course design workshops. The workshops integrate different taxonomies and course design models with Quality Matters standards. The goal is to help instructors deliver high quality online learning experiences by developing their own skills and designing their courses to meet or exceed an accepted quality standard. Our model also follows the philosophy of pedagogy first, technology second.

Are students actively engaged in your online course? Does your course encourage organic conversations driven by the students? This session is grounded in research that will include open discussion of strategies to integrate experiential learning communities into the course design.

Join us to see how we developed a holistic, all-encompassing program that integrates QM Standards. We would like to introduce our Online Course Development Program. This poster displays the professional development cycle from course blueprint to program evaluation.

Join faculty and an instructional designer from University of Alaska Anchorage as we share ideas for improving learner/content interaction (i.e., OER, e-portfolios, simulation labs) followed by practical solutions to modify and adapt these approaches for use within other programs.

This quality talk closely examines a private faith-based institution's experience with implementing internal course reviews while partnering with an OPM. During the exchange, the plan, the challenges, the process, and the results will be discussed.

Internationalizing QM

The discussion examines the intersection of exemplar accreditation standards from the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education of the American Occupational Therapy Association and Quality Matters Rubric Standards for best practice in distance education for occupational therapy practitioners. The comparison suggests opportunities for dialog between the organizations. The author recommends research and collaboration between accreditation agencies and institutes of higher education to modify standards related to distance education.

Digital badging is all the rage. But what exactly is a digital badge and how do they work? This presentation will explore the definition of a digital badge, how digital badges work. It will share our experience piloting digital badges for a certificate of completion and attainment of a competency.

The trajectory of QM-focused research has been from describing experience and observations (such as impact on satisfaction), to exploring narrowing foci (such as interaction), to applying established educational frameworks (such as TPACK and CoI), to correlating data (such as grades).  The result is a rich foundational body of research, along with actionable information on the complexities of educational research.   To encourage researchers to benefit from these foundations, a framework for finding and using evidence on QM impact will be introduced during this poster session.

Join this interactive session to brainstorm and learn how organizing strategies can help to create a faculty-led culture of QM reviews.

Join the Google Document to share resistances you encounter and provide solutions. MOre information will be added to the document after the presentation.

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As a new subscriber to Quality Matters, we were interested in helping faculty and instructors who teach online use the QM rubrics in course development and revision in nonthreatening
ways. Pilots occurred in the Graduate Program in Nursing, Graduate Program in Education, and in a selection of online summer offerings in the Undergraduate program. This presentation will demonstrate the many ways that institutions might introduce the QM rubrics to their faculty in supportive and non-threatening ways.

During this discussion participants will discover how a large public university used the ViVo tool to marry analytics and ADA compliance to video-based content; making online learning truly accessible, effective, and transformatively engaging!

Co-Presenter: Lergia Olivo

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.

Three years into our Online Teaching Fellows program, we were asked this question: Is it working? After an awkward silence and some shuffling of papers, we realized that we had been spending too much time assuming that it was working and not enough time assessing it. This session will introduce our assessment process and facilitate a discussion on how best to start meaningful assessment of a QM-centered professional development program.

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.

This session will focus on using the E-Learning Usability Scale for Higher Education to address standard 8.1 Course navigation facilitates ease of use. We will explore strategies to reduce cognitive overload, guide attention, and increase motivation.