Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) - Quality Matters (Online Workshop)

• At ASU Online, we offer three workshops from Quality Matters:
• Intro to Quality Matters (QM): A primer on Quality Matters, covering fundamental concepts and the tools you need to evaluate your course using the Quality Matters Rubric standards. This is a two-week asynchronous workshop and moves at a generally relaxed pace.
• Improving Your Online Course (IYOC): Tailored for applying Quality Matters standards to enhance your existing online courses. This is a three-week, asynchronous workshop and moves at a relaxed pace. This course will help you modify your existing online course by leveraging the Quality Matters Rubric.
• Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR): Ideal for those aiming to become certified Quality Matters reviewers or interested in learning about the Quality Matters Rubric for course feedback and review purposes. An intense, two-week workshop with deep learning to apply the Quality Matters Rubric as an evaluation tool to review third-party courses. Ideal for instructional designers and faculty who intend to become a Peer Reviewer with Quality Matters.

"Improving Your Online Course" (IYOC) is through Quality Matters and walks you through making incremental improvements on a specific course. This is an excellent workshop if you’re just beginning to get familiar with the Quality Matters essential standards. This workshop focuses on the 22 essential course standards to help you improve your online course. Improvements are identified and prioritized as you work with two knowledgeable facilitators and a cohort of your colleagues across other colleges. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a cross-disciplinary team! As an added bonus, this is the same Quality Matters course that has been taken globally by hundreds of thousands of educators. The curriculum has been time-tested.

Should you choose to participate, there will be no cost to you. ASU Online will pay the Quality Matters enrollment cost for you.

Since Quality Matters and ASU recognize the value of this course, two registrations are required: First, register with ASU Eventbrite. Then, register with Quality Matters.

This three-week, fully online workshop is restricted to ASU instructors teaching in fully online degree programs (o-courses). Registrants MUST identify the pre-developed course they want to improve.

Value

When you complete this nationally-recognized workshop you will have a plan to revise one of your online courses.

Time Commitment

This is a three-week fully online, instructor-led workshop. Enrollment is capped at 20 registrants, so please only register if you are certain you can devote five to seven hours per week to complete the workshop.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize the foundational concepts of Quality Matters.
2. Apply the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric to your own online course.
3. Describe the alignment of at least one module/unit in your online course.
4. Prioritize improvements to your online course.

How to Register

Two registrations are required.

First, register on the ASU Eventbrite page at http://asuonline.eventbrite.com. Please include your institutional email address in the registration.

After you register on Eventbrite and receive confirmation, you must also register at the Quality Matters site in order to participate.

Second, register via the Quality Matters (QM) website at http://qmprogram.org/myqm

• Sign in to your "Membership" account or sign up for an account for free.
• Navigate to "Workshop - Register" in the menu on the left side of the screen and choose "Dedicated Training".
• Find the "Independent Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) : (Statewide Systems)" offering that starts Thursday, April 10th, and click "Register" to the left side of the proper session.
• EdPlus will pay the $25 fee.

Location

https://www.qualitymatters.org/

This workshop uses the Quality Matters Learning Management System.

Registered participants will receive a welcome email with information about how to access the Quality Matters IYOC course the day before the workshop begins.

Required

Access to a for-credit course that you can use to apply the Quality Matters rubric to your own work during the workshop.

Host or Publisher ASU Online