Using the Quality Matters Rubric to Improve Your Online Course

$495.00
Price: $495.00
Event Date: 
November 2, 2011 - November 18, 2011
certificate specialization: 
Design and Delivery
Key Online Workshop Information
Minimum Estimated Time Commitment: 
~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Resources Provided in Workshop: 
Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online through November 2, 2012
Half-Hour Workshop Orientation - Learn about moodle and Elluminate LIVE! Navigate the workshop space
1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
Viewing of Live Sessions available through November 2, 2012
Event Summary: 

Participants will:

  • Identify strategies to improve course(s)
  • Learn how to use the rubric tool developed by the nationally recognized, FIPSE-funded Quality Matters (QM) project
  • Affirm strong areas in course(s) and generate specific ideas for improvements
  • Create courses to meet the 17 essential standards

 

If you have a disability, use assistive technology, or may need accommodation to fully access a workshop, please email us at workshop@sloanconsortium.org.  You will be contacted by someone from our workshop staff as quickly as possible to discuss your needs.
 

Complete Workshop Description
Online Workshop Description: 
Recognizing quality is much like recognizing art; everybody sees something different. With regard to online courses, your students, faculty, administrators, peers, and accrediting bodies may not know what to look for in assessing quality. Defining quality standards proves crucial to successful course design and implementation.  
Schedule: 
Workshop Opens - November 2nd. Please introduce yourself and begin reviewing materials
Workshop Orientation - Wednesday, November 2nd at 4pm EST
Workshop Officially Closes - November 18th. All workshop materials will be available through November 2, 2012
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

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

Pricing Information: 
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/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process) *Individual Members receive 2 discounts with membership, Institutional and Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire 2011 Sloan-C Workshop series.
Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists: 

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.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop/seminar 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.