Conference Presentations

How does one lead a team in a collaborative process of building quality online courses? The practice of yoga provides a compelling image through which to explore the presence and work of those who lead design teams. Toward that end, the metaphor can help faculty and instructional designers begin work with a design team, assume their professional persona, work the creative process, deal with competing forces to create something new, lead difficult team members, endure complications with patience, and learn from their work. This workshop is not really about yoga, but you may learn some!

This presentation describes successes in creating a set of support structures including a pre-review process of collaboration between faculty and instructional designers, ongoing support during the review, and post-review collaborative continual course improvement.

"You be the Reviewer: Quality Matters at NCCU," the new text-based mobile game reinforces participants' understanding of the APPQMR best practices. Learn about the creation and implementation of our mobile application and extend the fun of the APPQMR throughout the course design process!

"You be the Reviewer: Quality Matters at NCCU," the new text-based mobile game reinforces participants' understanding of the APPQMR best practices. Learn about the creation and implementation of our mobile application and extend the fun of the APPQMR throughout the course design process!

The purposes of this study were to examine students’ perceptions of online learning and identify attributes that contributes to a sense of a community. A total of 228 students participated in the study, which attempted to determine whether students perceived a social presence in the online course as a result of using VoiceThread. Findings revealed students’ perceptions of a high-quality course were dependent upon continual communication with the instructor, a predetermined method of connecting students with one another and students’ ability to express their opinions.

This session explores how one distributed K-12 program took a mandate to meet QM Standards as an opportunity to reevaluate SME, teacher, and student introductions to online learning and re-frame tough conversations around the student experience.

A QM Connect 2019 Grapevine, Texas session featuring a motorcycle riding petite instructor/presenter who incorporated "Two Truths and a Lie""as a fun Introduction prompt became our inspiration! Wow! No more boring introductions allowed! Now we use the QM mandated introduction as part of efforts to build and measure social presence and social capital in a cohort model. Our prompts fall into three categories: course-related, course-related fun, and just plain fun!

Join us to learn more about social presence and social capital, measuring social presence, and how we use the QM introductions to provide insights for teaching and building community!

See how an Online Teaching Program (OTP) became successful from needs analysis, design philosophy, and promotion strategy. 

This fast-paced session explores moonshot thinking, innovative environments, and overcoming challenges. You are invited to share your QM story in 3 minutes or less! We will discuss your QM Moonshot and determine where in the stars you landed - from stellar successes to failures that resulted in data (rapid unscheduled disassembly) and everything in between! Observers are also welcome! 

In this session, we will discuss how the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Division of eLearning and Professional Studies developed processes for ensuring quality online course development and implemented Quality Matters across the institution from training through individual certification and course recognition.

Do you have faculty who balk at learning about Quality Matters? Come to this session to learn how and why we created a faculty learning community to help faculty refresh and revise courses using the QM Rubric as its basis… but did not reveal that was what we were doing until the very last gathering.