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Using the Quality Matters Rubric to Improve Your Online Course

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Quality Matters Jul 2012
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Quality Matters Nov 2012
Track: 
Design and Delivery
Level: 
Level 2 - Intermediate
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

The Quality Matters(TM) Project is designed to improve the quality of online courses by establishing a peer-review quality assurance process. This training will explore the Quality Matters(TM) Project and rubric and will provide you with the framework to improve the quality of your online course. Participants in this hands-on workshop will use the Quality Matters(TM) rubric to review their online course, and to identify strong areas of their course and generate ideas for improvements in other areas. In addition, participants will develop a course improvement plan that includes an articulation the course modifications the faculty member wishes to make, the resources and support needed to make these modifications, and a timeline for making these modifications. This session will be of interest to faculty, staff, and instructional designers, who have already developed an online course. As the basis for their work in this training session, participants should select one of their previously-developed online courses and plan to work on it during this training.

Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
  • 1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Identify the standards of the Quality Matters(TM) Rubric as crucial components of a quality online course, and explain the "intention" of each of these standards.
  • Use the Quality Matters(TM) Rubric to review your online course. Identify the areas of your online course that map to each of the Quality Matters(TM) Rubric standards, and indicate whether each area is an exemplar or in need of improvement.
  • Develop a course improvement plan that includes: 1) the areas of your course that you plan to improve, 2) a description of how you will improve each of these areas, 3) a list of resources, training, and assistance that you may require to make these changes, and 4) a timeline for making these improvements.
Outcomes: 

Create a Course Revision Plan (Rubric) for your online course based on the Quality Matters Rubric

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Ron Legon
Ronald Legon is Executive Director of The Quality Matters Program and Provost Emeritus of the University of Baltimore (UB), where he served as Provost from 1992 to 2003. He also served as Director of the MBNA e-Learning Center at UB, which launched the first AACSB accredited fully online MBA program in 1998, and Director of the Helen P. Denit Honors Program. Over the past 40 years, Dr. Legon has taught history and humanities at Brooklyn College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago, and, most recently, at UB, where he teaches online, hybrid and face-2-face courses. He has published widely in the field of Greek History and, in recent years, on the subject of online education. Dr. Legon makes frequent presentations regarding the Quality Matters Rubric and process and the accumulating research findings regarding the impact of QM. In the past year he has presented at the Maricopa Community Colleges, the University of Pittsburgh, DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, Capella University, the University of Wisconsin System’s Learning Technologies Development Council, the Midwest Blackboard Users Group, the Sloan Consortium, the Instructional Technology Council, and Massachusetts Colleges Online. Dr. Legon received the 2008 award for Individual Leadership in the Field of Distance Learning from the U. S. Distance Learning Association.

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $495 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $345 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/2 coupon codes* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     
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Moodle: Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 		 Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino 

 
Register now for session: 
Quality Matters Jul 2012
Register now for session: 
Quality Matters Nov 2012
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