Using the Quality Matters Rubric to Improve Your Online Course

$495.00
Price: $495.00
Level: 
Intermediate - Level 2
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 October 6, 2011
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 October 6, 2011
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
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 - October 6th. Please introduce yourself and begin reviewing materials
Workshop Orientation - Monday, October 11th at 2pm EST
Workshop Officially Closes - October 22nd. All workshop materials will be available through October 6, 2011
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 Premium Members receive 2 discounts with membership, Institutional and Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 100 "free" seats in the entire 2010 Sloan-C Workshop series.
Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists: 

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.

Jean Runyon is the Dean of the Virtual Campus at Anne Arundel Community College. She has demonstrated excellence in teaching throughout her 30-year career as an educator. She received the Distance Educator of the Year (2006) award from the Maryland Distance Learning Association (MDLA) and the College of the Air Distance Education Consortium (COADEC). In 2004, Jean Runyon received the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Northeast Region Faculty Member award. She served on the Training Committee for the Quality Matters project, conducts course peer review training, and is a master peer reviewer. Her Information Age: Emerging Technologies course (ITS 1015) was one of the first courses to meet “quality expectations” as specified by the Quality Matters grant; ITS 1015 was the Maryland Distance Learning Association’s (MDLA) Course of the Year (2005). She is the Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, for Maryland Online; is the chair-elect and the Northeast Region board member for the Instructional Technology Council (an organization that represents higher education institutions in the United States and Canada that use distance learning technologies); is president-elect of the Maryland Distance Learning Association; and serves as a trainer/presenter at local, state, and national venues.

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.

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