2022 QM Connect

Which would you rather have? A great teacher with no industry experience? Or a solid industry expert with no teaching experience? At our top-five public university, we'll take the industry expert with that 423-page PPT every single time. Think about it - who would you take?

This session explores administrative processes executed to implement an institution wide, faculty and student-centered approach for boosting online success through quality course design metrics tied to state initiatives, faculty evaluation criteria, and the Quality Matters 23 essential standards.

Presence is a well-established construct individual instructors use to engage online students, but how do faculty and designers create a culture of presence across an entire program? This poster shares practical strategies to build and maintain an engaged, cohesive student experience from a program's start to finish.

Looking for ideas to expand quality assurance at your institution? In this session, we will reflect on a multi-faceted five-year plan to elevate online course quality at a large public university. You’ll come away with ideas for designing professional development to scale up your own QM plan.

Ringmasters share their backyard training practices for preparing your stars (course representatives) and their acts (courses) for the haul toward a successful QM Review.

Is the thought of your first QM certification review giving you heartburn? We’ll provide the antacid in the form of process documents and checklists you can use to help you get that review completed in no time!

Do you have questions about “scaling up” from an internal QM course review process to National QM certification? This presentation will discuss how one multi-year grant project is working on meeting that objective. Pitfalls, tips, and takeaway example products included.

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.

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an important consideration for Emergent Bilinguals in K-12 and post-secondary settings. This session will provide insight and practice with a research based rubric for evaluation of online language learning tools.

After careful analysis of thousands of text threads, we identified a clear pattern of communication which resulted in high student outcomes. We will be sharing our communications rubric which summarizes these findings.