Events

Description QM's flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those considering the adoption of a quality... Continue Reading →

Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric. Participants... Continue Reading →

Creating Accessible Course Documents  May 25 – June 14  Description  This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice make digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint.  Additionally,... Continue Reading →

Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools  May 25 – June 14  Description  The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support instructor-to-student interaction in courses. Maintaining instructor presence through regular communications (announcements, updates) and specific student-instructor interactions. Engaging in heightened monitoring of student progress... Continue Reading →

June 1 – June 21  Description  QM’s flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those considering... Continue Reading →

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - Section 1 June 1 – June 21  Description  How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to address educational disparities and meet the goals of Equity 2030? One promising path is to ground our practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to critically reflect on our equity... Continue Reading →

June 8 – June 28  Description  How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement... Continue Reading →

June 15 – July 5  Description  This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no scheduled class... Continue Reading →

Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools  June 15 – July 5  Description  The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support student-to-content interaction in courses.  Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed.  Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content.  Improving content... Continue Reading →

Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace  June 29 – July 19  Description  This spring, you may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or... Continue Reading →

July 6 – July 26 Description  This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course... Continue Reading →

Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools  July 6 – July 26  Description  The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to support student-to-content... Continue Reading →