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Sunday, November 1st, 2015

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Full-Day Workshops

QM for Administrators

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric

Instructional Design Practice: Fill Your Bag of Tricks!

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Half-Day Workshops

Improving Your Online Course

Connecting Learning Objectives and Assessments

Designing for Presence: QM and the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework as Guides

Competently Designed: Building Capacity to Support the Competency-Based Revolution

Taking you QM to the Next Level

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon 2 Hour Workshop

Preparing for Program Review and Certification

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Half-Day Workshops

Creating Accessible Word Documents and Captioning Videos

Using Instructional Materials and Technology to Promote Learner Engagement

Incorporating Fun: A Gamification Framework Aligned with QM

The QM Research Culture

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception

Monday, November 2nd, 2015

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM: Breakfast

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM: Newcomer's Breakfast

Breakfast

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Keynote Panel

Keynote Panel: Becoming Competent in Competency Based Education: What is it and What Is Driving this Growing Movement?

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Break

Digesting and Discussing Break

What are You Serving Your Students? Homemade or Canned Digital Content?

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM: Breakout Sessions

Put on Your Cultural Glasses and Jump! Transforming Regular Assignments into Active Learning Experience

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Making Quality Standard: Building a Sustainable Quality Assurance Culture and Establishing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Analytics as Reflective Practice in Online Teaching and Learning

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

e-Learning: What Students Have to Tell Us

Measuring the Impact

Quality Matters Rubric: The Swiss Army Knife of Instructional Design

New Directions for QM

Competency-Based Education - How to Keep Students Interested with Mandated Curriculum

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Building a Quality Assurance Regime for Post-SARA Online Education: A State Regulator's Perspective

Policy Watch

Launch and Learn - TEAM with QM: Together Everyone Achieves More with QM

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch and Poster Session

Digital Storytelling as an Assessment Practice

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

From the Ground Up

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Maximize Student Motivation and Engagement Through Technology

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Online Student Orientation: The Impact on Grades, Retention, and Preparedness

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Threaded Discussions in the Online Classroom: Are They Worth the Effort?

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Enhancing Learner Engagement Through Credit Hour Analysis

Measuring the Impact

Flipping the Classroom: Why Didn't I Do This Earlier?

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Free, Fun and Friendly - Exploring Tools to Increase Active Learning and Create Community

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

A Rating Tool for Online Textbook Supplemental Learning Materials

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Quantifying how Quality Matters - Calculating the Return on Investment

Measuring the Impact

Italian and YouSeeU: Using Student Generated Video to Assess Language Learning Online

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Coming Face-to-Face with Online Shortcomings: Using QM's Rubric to Retool an Online Course

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Launch and Learn - Together Everyone Achieves More with QM

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

The Cowboys Cry, "Ki Yippee Yi!" A Gamified Retrospective on Year One of Institutional Implementation

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Six Years and Counting!

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Breaking Down Barriers for Students with Quality Courses

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Assuring Quality: A Team-Based Approach

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Rolling out Quality Matters on Our Campus

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Using QM to Strategically Build an Online Program from Scratch

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Instructional Designer: Guide on the Side

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Cooperation, Collaboration, and Compliance

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

1:30 PM - 2:20 PM: Breakout Sessions

Mastering the Online Teaching Path: Integrating QM Standards in an Online Teaching Certificate

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

What is the Heartbeat of QM on Your Campus?

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

QM and Fudan University Craft a Course Design Rubric for China

New Directions for QM

The Forest for the Trees: Devising Quality QM Research Projects

Measuring the Impact

The Road to Quality - A Panel Discussion on Launching a QM Initiative

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

21st Century Learners: The Connecting Link in the K-20 Chain

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Spicing It Up! Quality Course Design for the Digital Age

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

A Quality Assurance Taxonomy for Online Education: A New Criticality Measure

New Directions for QM

2:30 PM - 2:55 PM: Breakout Sessions

Take the Next Step with a QM Faculty Learning Community

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

QM Program Certification: Is it Worth It?

New Directions for QM

Getting and Keeping Students Engaged: Practical Design Tips for Your Class

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

QM Coordinator Success Tips: A Model for Sharing Roles and Responsibilities

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Measuring the Heart of Quality: Researching the Impact of QM at Not One, Not Two, but Four Colleges within a University System

Measuring the Impact

From the Desktop to the Classroom: Using "On Demand" Video to Support Instruction

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

The Strategic Use of Analytics to Create a 360° Overall View of Course Quality

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Quality Matters and the Ubiquity of ADA Compliance in Online Environments

Policy Watch

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Break

Digesting and Discussing Break

Solving Two Common eLearning Problems: Student Retention and Proctoring Process Management

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM: Breakout Sessions

Competency-Based Education: Craze or Way Forward for Online Learning?

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Uncovering Your Inner Learning Objectives

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

A Journey to the Top 2 Percent

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

QM-IDA Membership Meeting

New Directions for QM

Flexible Trends in Education: Is the New QM Rubric Limber Enough?

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Participation in QM Professional Development Programs and Its Impact on Face-to-Face Teaching

Measuring the Impact

QM Program Review - What We're Learning

New Directions for QM

Addressing "Dark Side" Behaviors in Learners

New Directions for QM

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM: Breakout Sessions

Examples Please! Building a Shared Repository of Examples that Meet QM Standards

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Transition Lassoed by QM: Capitalizing on a New LMS by Integrating QM Principles in Training

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Hearing Voices: Using Multiple-Perspective Feedback to Improve Course Design

Measuring the Impact

Going Beyond Course Design: Implementing Online Delivery Standards

New Directions for QM

Closed Captioning Matters: Enhancing Accessibility and Improving Learner Experience in Online Learning

Policy Watch

Establishing a Summer Institute: Developing and Designing with the Online Course Improvement Program

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

A Dash of Encouragement and a Sprinkle of Expectations

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

The Horse is Catching Up with the Buggy!

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM: Breakfast

Breakfast

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM: Plenary Session

Tomorrow's LMS: How Online Learning Must Evolve to Support the New Student Demographic

9:15 AM - 10:05 AM: Breakout Sessions

It's All In the Design -- The Importance of Making Courses Legally Accessible

K-12 Priorities and Challenges

The Design and Development of an Internal Course Review Process

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Overcoming QM Challenges at a Traditional University

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Bridging the Gap

New Directions for QM

SARA - Is It Right for Your Institution?

Policy Watch

Targeting Program Design Certification: Leveraging Quality Matters Standards for Program Continuous Improvement

New Directions for QM

Discussion Points for Launching a QM Initiative in a Community College Environment: Leadership and Engaging Stakeholders

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

"I Think I Can" - Observations from the Road to Lake Wobegon

Measuring the Impact

10:15 AM - 10:40 AM: Breakout Sessions

Dual Credit: Do You Dare?

K-12 Priorities and Challenges

A Framework that Supports a QM Culture

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

A Professional Development Program for Faculty Teaching Blended and Online

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

8 Tips for Addressing Standard 8

Policy Watch

Engaging Students with Digital Badges in an Online Course

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

How to Salvage a Face-to-Face Course Using QM Standards

New Directions for QM

Student Perspectives: A Deep Dive

Measuring the Impact

The Ultimate Oxymoron: Teaching Public Speaking Online

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM: Break

Digesting and Discussing Break

An Authentic Lab Experience For Online Learners

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM: Breakout Sessions

A Thousand Words: Using Digital Tools to Enhance Visual Literacy

K-12 Priorities and Challenges

Game On! Enhancing the Classroom with Gamification

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

The Learning Brain: Implications for Design

New Directions for QM

Captioning 101: What Faculty and Reviewers Ought to Know

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

A Community of Quality: Using Social Network Analysis to Study University-Wide Implementation of QM

Measuring the Impact

Supply Meets Demand in a DL Course

New Directions for QM

Introduction to the CBE National Landscape Project

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

QM Coordinator Feedback Session: Remember the QMCs!

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM: Awards Luncheon

Awards Luncheon

1:45 PM - 2:10 PM: Breakout Sessions

Personalizing Third-Party Courses

K-12 Priorities and Challenges

Our Sneaky QM Implementation: Moving Past Posting Their Syllabus Online

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

We Heard You: QM IDA Professional Development Survey Results

New Directions for QM

Using Pecha Kucha in Online Environments

New Directions for QM

Activities for Building Community Online

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

An eLearning Academy Takes Flight: Propelling Our Program Toward Effective Implementation

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Flexible but not Flimsy: Addressing Standards Using a Personalized Faculty Pathway

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

2:20 PM - 3:10 PM: Breakout Sessions

The K-12 Online Learning Landscape

K-12 Priorities and Challenges

Creating the Perfect Module

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Why Fly Without a Net? The Role of Quality Matters Training and Support in Online Course Development

New Directions for QM

The Heart of What Matters: The Creation of a Quality Online Continuous Improvement Plan

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Enhancing Course Design and Student Engagement with OER, BYOT

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Design Adaptive Learning with QM Standards -- Alignment Is Key!

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Systemwide Support for Development of Quality Initiatives MATTERS! Backing Campuses to Implement QM

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Master Reviewer Feedback Session: Remember the Recommendations!

3:10 PM - 3:40 PM: Break

Digesting and Discussing Break

3:40 PM - 4:30 PM: Breakout Sessions

The Intersection of ACOTE Accreditation Standards and Quality Matters Rubric Standards for Best Practice in Distance Education

Policy Watch

Personalized Problems to Inspire Learners

K-12 Priorities and Challenges

Perfect Fit the First Time: Online Tools That Meet QM Standards

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

From Good to Great

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Not So Lone Stars: Connecting the Global #QMmunity Using Social Media

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Holistically Forming Cohorts in Faculty Professional Development

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Key to the Quality Highway: Course Mapping

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Certified Facilitators! Corral 'Em Up and Provide Feedback!

4:40 PM - 5:05 PM: Breakout Sessions

Engaging Faculty with QM Certification via a Cohort Model

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Modeling Quality: Using the CPE Rubric for Faculty Development Programs

New Directions for QM

Help! I'm Teaching Online and I Don't Have an Instructional Designer!

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Beyond APPQMR: Providing Customized Training on Quality Online Design and Delivery

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM: Breakout Sessions

To "Understand" Measurable Learning Objectives: Helping Faculty Meet Standards 2.1 and 2.2

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

How the LMS Canvas Helps us Meet QM Standards

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Mapping the Path(s) to Leadership: Using QM as the Foundation for an Online Degree Completion Program in Healthcare Leadership and Administration

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Mission Possible: Implementing a QM-Based Quality Assurance Program at a SEC University

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

7:50 AM - 8:35 AM: Breakfast

Breakfast

8:35 AM - 9:25 AM: Breakout Sessions

Adapting a Web-Based Tool to Streamline Internal Quality Assurance

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Could Cultural Inclusion Be General Standard 9?

New Directions for QM

Using Effective Assessment Protocols to Maximize Learner Experience (Fulfilling QM Standards 3.4 and 3.5)

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Course Review Manager's Toolbox

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Preparing Faculty to Meet QM Essential Standards 2.1 - 2.5

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Using the QM CPE Rubric as a Guide to Build an Online Teaching Certificate Course

New Directions for QM

A Quality Matters-Informed Course Template

New Directions for QM

What's New with QM Professional Development?

New Directions for QM

9:35 AM - 10:00 AM: Breakout Sessions

Save Time and Money: Grow Your Own QM Facilitator

Best Practices in Launching a QM Initiative

Using DropThought to Aid Your QM Course Redesign

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Keep Up with Emerging Technology: Become a MERLOT Peer Reviewer

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

The Noel-Levitz Priorities Survey for Online Learners (PSOL) at NMSU: A Baseline for Future Research

Measuring the Impact

I'm NOT Teaching Public Speaking Online! Am I?

Leveraging the Power of Online Learning to Facilitate Quality Degree Completion

Authentic Health and Science Lab Experience for Online Term and On-Demand Programs

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

Using QM Alignment to Insure Online Groupwork Success

New Directions for QM

Badges? We Ain't Got No Badges!

Next-Generation Technology Impacts on Quality in Online Learning

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Break

Digesting and Discussing Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Closing Session - Campfire Stories

Campfire Stories

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