Conference Presentations

This Making a Difference for Students award recipient will share how her college went from the possibility of losing the ability to teach online to radical changes resulting in a strong program that ensures true quality in students’ online education. 

We are all looking for resources to transform the quality of our digital instruction in ways that are the most effective for learners. QM is definitely one of those ways! Join us as we discuss how the real transformers - teachers - can rely on their Transformer Traits (working for good of all, being flexible, and speaking the language) to grow their commitment to quality and fully invest in continuous improvement by serving as QM Course Representatives. 

A person's experiences, background, and culture all influence how a student learns. This session addresses three approaches implemented in online courses at a HSI regional university to develop sense of belonging and enhance student relatedness.

Quality matters, but where does it begin? For a mid-western university, it begins with the design document. Bring a copy of your design document. You will have time to share, examine, and explore methods to improve its alignment with QM Standards.

Join us as we unravel the challenges obstructing effective online learning and introduce a transformative solution. Discover integrated strategies that prioritize learner wellness. Engage with the foundations that inform our comprehensive design. Prepare to be enlightened by the compelling results, which reveal enhanced self-awareness, affective regulation, and coping mechanisms. It's an opportunity to participate in meaningful change that you won't want to miss!

An academic health science center in the southern United States adopted Quality Matters in 2014, representing the first institutional partnership with Quality Matters in higher education in the state. Within the same calendar year, administrators were presented with a new development from campus administrators: the campus' legacy learning management system would be replaced with a new system. Could the eLearning group blend training on QM with the training on the new system? Six months later, an online course with 26 QM Standards was integrated into the self-paced online course.

In this session, we will review a process for converting to an open educational resource for a core course.  We will highlight a timeline and tasks completed by a faculty committee to successfully implement the new course design.  The new design aligned with the chosen open education resource, state TAG requirements and other project parameters.   The faculty committee was awarded one of the University's Affordable Learning Grants for its work.

This presentation takes a trauma-informed approach to understanding and addressing student needs. Participants will identify how trauma may influence student behavior and  indicate best practices to work effectively with students experiencing trauma.

Participants will be enrolled in a middle school online introductory unit and participate in an online treasure hunt. They will work through adaptive scenarios to discover the tools needed to ultimately find the hidden treasure and unlock the key to online learning.

Failure is not an option right . . . well, actually it is!  Learning from my mistakes has been an integral part of my current success managing our system-wide Quality Matters program.  In this session I'll share the mistakes I've made so participants don't have to make them too.  I'll also offer some practical tips and solutions for managing a QM program that participants can apply today.  Participants will share their program management challenges, receive feedback from peers, and start writing an action plan.

This session takes you step by step through our quality assured design and development process, allow you to access our tools and templates, and explore our delivery platform and framework for inspiration.

Our virtual interactive poster tour will take you step by step through our quality assured design and development process, allow you to access our tools and templates, and explore our delivery platform and framework for inspiration.

Explore how a large public university weaves its QM implementation plan through the development process, how instructional designers humanize the rubric to help faculty engage with the concepts effectively, and how quality data is captured and used to drive strategic improvement on a broader scale.

Rush College of Nursing (CON) was one of the first in the country to develop fully online graduate nursing programs. Enrollment continues to grow and many of them are among the top ten nursing programs in the United States. However, students persistently decry course delivery methods. They complain of disorganization, out-of-date methods of delivery, and lack of instructor presence in the course. Enter Quality Matters. The use of the Quality Matters scoring rubric enhanced the credibility and validity of the review because the review was based on best practices.

This session will highlight the 12-Step Checklists  developed by the Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP) at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The checklists translate the QM standards into actionable steps, which help faculty “see” how a standard looks in an online course. Faculty also use the checklists when developing or revising an online course as a quality assurance measure.

The QM Rubric provides pathways to help faculty design assessments that can address up to three needs at once, including changing accreditors' standards.  This session will highlight examples and creative faculty training to streamline assessment.