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Quality Talk: Get a Twitter Account, Join the #QMConnect Conversation

Twitter is the largest Professional Learning Network in existence, and we need to get QM attendees plugged in. What does #QMConnect mean??? Come find out and learn how to keep up to date with @QMProgram all year long. We will also discuss whom to follow, Twitter tips, and more. Join the #QMConnect discussion.

After this session, participants will be able to . . .

Quality Talk: Standardizing the Standards! A One-Stop-Shop for General Standard 7

The journey from a "No Template LMS Template" to a "One-Stop-Shop": the trials, errors, and progress in continuous improvement for meeting General Standard 7 Learner Support - plus a few others - in all courses in a multi-campus institution.

After this session, participants will be able to . . .

Identify strengths and weaknesses of a one-stop-shop approach to General Standard 7 Learner Support.

Quality Talk: The Hidden Power of Alignment in Quality Matters Standards

This five-minute presentation will help you visualize how alignment has the power to make visible the interconnection between outcomes, materials, assignments, and assessments, providing fluidity to the design process and structural integrity to the final product.

After this session, participants will be able to . . .

  1. Identify the QM Standards that require alignment.
  2. Visualize alignment as an organizational structure that lends to coherent course design.
  3. Describe the benefits of alignment.

Quality Talks: Standard 5.3

Description In this series of Quality Talks, presenters will demonstrate how they design courses to meet QM Specific Standard 5.3. The presenters will have only five minutes to explain their approach; therefore session participants will get to see four different ways to approach this Standard.

Quality Talks: Standard 5.3

In this series of Quality Talks, presenters will demonstrate how they design courses to meet QM Specific Standard 5.3. The presenters will have only five minutes to explain their approach; therefore session participants will get to see four different ways to approach this Standard. Participants in this session will be able to vote on the best Quality Talk of the session.

Eddie Andreo

Lisa Clark

Belle Cowden

Steven Crawford

JJ Johnson

Lisa Kidder

Quality, Cost and Access: How Can QM Address the Dilemma of the Iron Triangle?

Quality is perceived as intrinsically connected to cost and access, as defined in the eternal triangle concept; that is, an increase on one side of the triangle necessitates adjustments in the other two with at least one of those being decreased. The Iron Triangle has been related to education in that increasing quality of education increases cost and therefore would greatly reduce access to education. Technology is suggested as a way to break, or at least add flexibility to the iron triangle. But, from whose viewpoint and how?

Quantifying how Quality Matters - Calculating the Return on Investment

From a case study developed for a large R1 institution, the researcher offers a methodology for making the case to fund QM as an institutional effectiveness program to increase completion and spur innovation in teaching and learning. This poster will showcase a return on investment (RoI) tool for calculating 10-year revenue impact, allocating program revenue, and analyzing the redistribution of funds to support program start-up and expansion. Participants will leave with an online toolkit for use in adapting the working documents to their own organizational attributes. (PCs - Recommended)

Quia As an Online Classroom to Improve Teaching and Learning

Quia is a web tool for quintessential instructional archive and provides a wide variety of tools that are used by teachers. It is a popular platform for educational activities for teaching and learning for all areas of education. Also, Quia includes different kinds of online activities by using the teacher’s content, an online testing system that has immediate feedback, online surveys, a class webpage, and access to many free shareable activities.

Raising the Bar: An Institution's Journey to Sustainable Quality in Online Education

Is your institution ready to launch a quality online program?  Do you need ideas to “break through” faculty disinterest or inertia with respect to QM?   Then this session is for you!  Come along on a “tour” of one institution’s journey to quality, what we are learning along to way, and how we are embracing the challenges we know are yet to come. 

Raising the Bar: Leveraging Innovation to Extend Standard 8 and Advance Accessibility

One size does not fit all. This idea is especially true when designing an online course for maximum accessibility. How can we help educators power up in areas of accessible online course design in order to create a more effective learning environment for all students? Come to this session to find out how many paths we can discover to reach the same outcome. This conversation started before the presentation using the #QMPBJ hashtag on Twitter. Presenters: Renee Petrina & Anna Lynch of Indiana University's eLearning Design & Services

Rapid Prototyping with the QM Rubric

In the late 1980s an industrial fabricator, 3D Systems, produced three-dimensional models that became working prototypes of final products. In the world of instructional design, Rapid Prototyping has given us insights into a faster course creation process while retaining a quality instructional design methodology. By using the Quality Matters Rubric as a guide for the prototype, quality course design can be “baked-in” the end result. With the research-based practices in the course prototype, it is easier to create a quality course.