2024 QM Connect

Exploring the Benefits of Dual Enrollment: QM-Recognized College Courses for High School Students

Discover how dual enrollment enhances equity and inclusion for rural and underserved students. Our university and K-12 partners will share best practices and tackle logistical challenges of virtual dual enrollment programs. Learn how QM standards ensure high-quality courses, providing a solid foundation for successful implementation in diverse educational settings.

Escape the Inaccessible: The Digital Escape Room About Inclusive Design

This study explored how a DER about accessibility impacted faculty intentions to develop accessible online content. Addressing issues within online learning is crucial because inaccessible content excludes learners, hindering their educational experience. Takeaways: 1) DERs provide engaging and challenging experiences for participants, 2) Participant frustration fosters empathy towards learners with disabilities, and 3) Motivates faculty to create accessible online content.

Ensuring Quality and Flexibility: A True HyFlex Course Model for Diverse Learners

Discover how your institution can implement high-quality HyFlex courses to meet diverse student needs, particularly in the face of rising mental health challenges. We'll share how we developed a HyFlex model that integrates face-to-face, synchronous online via Zoom, and asynchronous online options, all aligned with QM Standards. This session will equip you with practical insights into our course development process, empowering you to create equitable learning experiences at your institution.

Ensuring Academic Integrity in the AI Era

Join us as we share our methods for maintaining academic integrity in online classes.We will explore effective strategies for teaching students to use AI tools responsibly, emphasizing the importance of leading with care before considering consequences. Additionally, we will assess current academic integrity policies related to AI use and discuss potential improvements based on best practices.

Engaging Beyond the Slide: Storytelling and AI in Mini-Lecture Design

Explore the transformative power of storytelling and AI in instructional materials designed to boost student engagement. This collaborative effort among faculty, instructional designers, and media specialists introduces innovative strategies for content creation and effective technology use, aiming to enrich online learning experiences. Key takeaways include practical techniques for integrating AI and storytelling in instructional materials.

Designing Online Group Work through a UDL Mindset

Do you envision collaboration as a cornerstone of an effective face-to-face classroom but struggle to imagine how it is possible in asynchronous online learning? Collaboration is a key approach across many learning theories and pedagogies. We will explore strategies to give your online learners the structure and support they need to successfully complete small group projects based on the UDL guidelines, research into inclusive pedagogy, and learner feedback from a real course redesign. 

Designing for Gen Z: How Quality Matters was Made for Gen Z Learners

Born between approximately 1997 and 2012, Generation Z now dominates our college campuses, including the online classroom. These digital natives are comfortable texting, playing a game, and watching Tik Tok, all while completing their coursework. This presentation will examine the contextual factors that shape Generation Z learners and how the implementation of Quality Matters standards can foster a successful learning environment for all students in our college classrooms.

Design Smarter, Not Harder: The AI Advantage

Is AI topping your support tickets? In the last academic year, the STC Digital Learning Dept was flooded with questions! Discover how we collaborated to define roles and leverage AI for development, training, data tracking, and planning. Hear our results and improvement plans. While AI is not a universal tool, we’ve created an active group of faculty and staff using AI tools to create successful learning environments and projects.   

Creating the QM Quick Minute Webinar: From Vision to Implementation

Discover QM Quick Minute: Join us in exploring Ohio’s newest webinar for networking and knowledge exchange! We’ll share our vision to foster engagement and build community among Ohio's professionals on a quarterly basis. Engage with us in this interactive session to experience the creation of Quick Minute, especially its diversity in professional development and uniqueness in scholarship opportunities. Ohio spoke and we listened, so let’s connect, learn, and grow together!