SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: Using the Quality Matters Rubric to Improve Your Online Course
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Key Information
Workshop Description
Workshop Schedule
Technology Information
Attendance Pricing
Panelist/Presenter Biographies
Registration is now open.
Key Information
Total Minimum Length: ~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Start Date: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)
Synchronous Date: Thursday, June 12th, 2pm-3pm ET – Live session conducted in online meeting room
Resources Provided:
- Presentations and other workshop materials, viewable online until May 28th, 2008
- 2 one hour Live Panel Discussions – Monday, June 2nd, 2pm-3pm ET & Thursday, June 12th, 2pm-3pm ET
- During the Panel Discussion – Participation in Live Q&A
- After the Panel Discussion – Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31st, 2008
ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS: Quality Matters website: http://www.qualitymatters.org
"Sloan-C View, Perspectives in Quality Online Education."
The Quality Matters project was featured in a Community College Times article, "Online Boom Spurs Efforts to Enhance Quality of Courses"
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Introduction
Sloan-C announces an interactive online workshop focused on learning how to improve your online course(s). Learn how to use the rubric tool developed by the nationally recognized, FIPSE-funded Quality Matters (QM) project. The QM rubric provides a research-supported framework with annotations and examples for applying quality practices to specific course design standards. Affirm the strong areas in your course(s) and generate specific ideas for improvements. The QM rubric is the centerpiece of the QM process.
During the workshop, you will have access to two key presentations recorded in Macromedia Breeze, allowing you to see and hear the presentations as many times as you wish! The discussion boards and live session will allow you to ask any questions you have of presenters in both asynchronous and synchronous formats.
When learning about how to improve your online course(s), it only makes sense to take a workshop in an affordable online format. No travel hassles, no scheduled meeting times that must be planned around, just Sloan-C research and interaction at its best!
Using asynchronous collaboration software provided by Moodle.com and powerful synchronous collaboration software provided by Elluminate™, Sloan-C provides an innovative, collaborative format that caters to learners in a variety of ways.
Workshop Agenda at Glance
Activities begin Wednesday, May 28th. A live synchronous online presentation consisting of the presenters will be held on Monday, June 2nd and Thursday, June 12th both starting at 2 pm ET. All activity will be recorded, even the live event, allowing you to watch it later if it does not fit your schedule.
Workshop Description
Recognizing quality is much like recognizing art – you know it when you see it, but everybody sees something different. And when it comes to online courses, your students, faculty, administrators, peers, and accrediting bodies may certainly not see what you do. In fact, they might not even know what to look for in assessing quality. Sloan-C announces an interactive online workshop focused on learning how to improve your online course(s). Learn how to use the rubric tool developed by the nationally recognized, FIPSE-funded Quality Matters (QM) project. The QM rubric provides a research-supported framework with annotations and examples for applying quality practices to specific course design standards. Affirm the strong areas in your course(s) and generate specific ideas for improvements. The QM rubric is the centerpiece of the QM process. Additionally, this course serves as a stepping stone for faculty interested in becoming certified course peer reviewers.
Schedule
May 28th – May 30th Activities: Learn Moodle, the workshop's learning management system, and Elluminate Live!, the workshop's web conferencing platform. Watch recorded presentations and begin reviewing guest courses.
Monday, June 2nd, 2pm ET – Live Synchronous Online Presentations (Online using Elluminate): Ron Legon and Jean Runyon– We will kick off the session with an open round of comments from presenters and then open the forum up for Q&A. We will finish with summary thoughts from presenters. THE SESSION WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATER VIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE!
June 2nd – June 13th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitators, Ron Legon and John Sener.
A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Thursday, March 13th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Ron Legon and Jean Runyon. We will begin the session with an open round of comments from the facilitators and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants. We will finish with a summary of thoughts from the facilitators. THE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATERVIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
Technology Information
Sloan-C brings you the following technologies to provide an exciting experience during the workshop:
 Elluminate™ Live! ™ -- Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals. For more information about Elluminate™, please visit the Elluminate page in the Sloan-C Vendor Corner.
 Moodle -- Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide 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. We have found though that low-cost does not mean that you have to sacrifice quality. Moodle still provides a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.
Attendance Pricing
Price: $295 Each
Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $145 with coupon code* (That's a $150 discount! Find out how to become a Premium Member)
College Pass Member Pricing: Free with coupon code* (Find out how to become a CollegePass Member)
Registration is now open.
*(Individual Premium Members receive 1 discount with membership, Institutional Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 150 "free" seats in the entire 2007 Sloan-C Workshop series.)
Presenter Biography:
Ronald Legon, QM Project Director and Provost Emeritus University of Baltimore
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 recent months, he has presented at Valencia Community College, DeSales University, the University System of Maryland, the Tennessee Board of Regents, the DC Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and the South Eastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education.
Jean Runyon, Director, College of Southern Maryland
Professor Jean Runyon is the director of the College of Southern Maryland ’s Innovative Teaching Center . As the director, she oversees all faculty development activities for more than 350 full-time faculty and adjuncts. In addition, she coordinates the distance learning initiatives for the institution including training for faculty who develop and teach web-based and blended courses, telecourses, and telewebs.
Professor Jean Runyon is recognized by her students and her peers as a superior teacher in the traditional and distance learning classroom environment. She has demonstrated excellence in teaching throughout her 26-year career as an educator in all instructional delivery formats. 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, Professor Runyon received the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Northeast Region Faculty Member award. She serves 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 serves on the board of directors for Maryland Online, is 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 of the Maryland Distance Learning Association, co-chairs MDLA’s Instructional Design Affinity Group, 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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