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The Effect of Student Readiness on Student Success in Online Courses

Our team conducted a QM-funded research study exploring the effects of student readiness on student success in the online environment.  We executed quantitative research measures (Chi-Square test) aggregating sub-scores of the Smarter Measure Learning Readiness Indicator with final course grades while controlling for course and instructor quality using QM certification for both. 

The Goldilocks Principle of Course Navigation: How Quality Matters Is Just Right

Learning Management Systems (LMS) serve to accommodate the growing load of student enrollment in higher education programs: as a way to increase instructor and student connectivity, by providing a hub for learning resources, allowing a stream of data and analysis for systems learning, and increasing student engagement. Dependency on LMS for virtual delivery of learning content and use continues to increase (Allen and Seaman, 2016).

The Goldilocks Principle of Course Navigation: How Quality Matters Is Just Right

Learning Management Systems (LMS) serve to accommodate the growing load of student enrollment in higher education programs: as a way to increase instructor and student connectivity, by providing a hub for learning resources, allowing a stream of data and analysis for systems learning, and increasing student engagement. Dependency on LMS for virtual delivery of learning content and use continues to increase (Allen and Seaman, 2016).

The Heart of What Matters: The Creation of a Quality Online Continuous Improvement Plan

 

Are you struggling with implementing a review plan that affects continuous course improvement? In two years, NMSU-A has had 80 percent of its courses QM approved. Through the use of a faculty team, the institution has provided training, technical support, and mentorship that has meshed QM standards, best practices in online delivery, and professional development. Presentation will include perspectives from an administrator, a tenured faculty member, and an adjunct instructor.

The ID-Faculty Partnerships: A Participatory Approach to Addressing Curricular Metrics of Quality at the “Macro” Level Using UDL

With the exponential growth of online programs, there is an added challenge of balancing reach with quality, at scale. Managing quality, at scale, compels a combination of “micro” (classroom) and “macro” (curricular) level efforts, that are grounded in institutional values, professional standards, and universal design for learning principles. Social work concepts can inform instructional design strategies; facilitating movement beyond traditional objectivist and behaviorist orientations.

The Impact of QM: Before and After

Are you considering implementation of QM?  Is your leadership or faculty questioning the significance of QM?  In three years New Mexico State University Alamogordo has gone from having no courses designed around the QM Standards to 100% of its courses designed around the QM Standards.  Hear what the impact of QM has been for online students, for face-to-face students, and for the institution as a whole.  The team responsible for the success will share the distance education picture before QM and the picture now that QM is fully implemented.  Quantitative and qualita

The Information Literacy Project: Using QM to Achieve QA in Library Instruction

The Information Literacy Project is a collaborative effort between librarians and instructional designers to increase undergraduate students' ability to retrieve, evaluate, and use information with proficiency. The project is comprised of six, self-paced online learning modules that are used to supplement learning experiences in online, blended, and on-ground courses. This session will showcase the project, describe the design process, highlight challenges and solutions in addressing QM, and explain significant changes that were made to improve the design.