Pedagogy

Learner Interactions for Engagement and Learning

Dr. Kayla Gilchrist-Ward, Associate Professor, Oakwood University presented last October (2020) a Quality Matters (QM) session with an awesome title: “Belt it Out! Using Karaoke and Other Tools to Promote Student Engagement” that caught my attention tonight. Gilchrist-Ward began with an icebreaker by asking participants several questions, including if audience members had every given a […]
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Open Design for Equity and Innovation

I am tired today. It has been a long week. I wanted to end with something about open pedagogy and design. I have on my watch list several Quality Matters (QM) webinars. I am working on another QM course that started this week and enjoying it. I learn as much from the materials and activities […]
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Prosocial Utility and Textbooks

Karen Hales facilitated a virtual journal club session as part of the LSE webinar series last October that caught my attention: “Promoting Science Interest with Prosocial Utility.” Jeanette Zambrano, a doctoral student in Urban Education Policy with a concentration in Educational Psychology at University of Southern California introduced goal-congruity theory. Zambrano talked about dropout in […]
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Labor-based Contract Grading for Equity

Today I attended a talk that was rescheduled after an unfortunate Zoom bombing incident…  Asao B. Inoue discussed what labor-based grading contracts is. Inoue described labor-based grading contracts as: a set of social agreements with students in a course identifies how to determine the final course grade uses labor as the only measure for grades carefully articulated in a […]
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Digital Accessibility Tips and NC Virtual

Tonight I watched another Quality Matters (QM) webinar presented by Chris Smith and entitled “Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes: The True Impact of Digital Accessibility” that was recorded last year. Chris Smith is an instructional designer with NC Virtual. I am trying to learn as much as I can and practice accessibility in the course […]
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Templates for Different Modalities

Jennifer Davis, a Senior Instructional Designer & Quality Assurance Coordinator at Sinclair College in Ohio presented a session entitled “Recipes for eCourse Design: Combining Raw Ingredients and Modality Options to Create Quality Courses” that I found on the QMQualityMatters YouTube channel. During the session objectives slide presentation, Davis mentioned CBE, Competency Based Education, and differentiating […]
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Modeling Learning

I receive the ACUE newsletter and often find interesting articles or links to talks. The email this week included a session entitled “Success for Every Student Through Effective Teaching” that is part of ACUE’s panel discussion from the California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCCAOE) Conference. I watched it tonight after getting my first dose […]
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The Student Perspective of the Online Course Experience

Penny Ralston-Berg from PennState World Campus did a Quality Matters (QM) webinar on February 9, 2021 entitled “Student Perspective 2 0: Where Do We Go from Here?” that I watched tonight. Ralston-Berg started by comparing the institutional and student perspectives of success. This comparison was interesting because we just read an article about student success […]
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Continuous Improvement of Online Courses through Student Feedback

Another Quality Matters (QM) webinar entitled “Improving Course Design Quality Through Online Graduate Student Evaluations” caught my attention. Drs. Amy M. Grincewicz and Cathy DuBois from Kent State University have years of experience in instructional design and online course programs. The goals of the session were to discuss quality assurances in an online degree program, […]
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Lessons from Designing Culturally Affirming Online Learning Communities

The Quality Matters (QM) YouTube channel has recent video recordings from webinars and panels. One I found tonight had several members from North Carolina Central University (NCCU)! The panel included: Racheal Brooks, Zakaria Jouaibi, Laurell Malone, Gail Hollowell & Larrisha McGill-Youngblood. I am so glad I clicked on this recording to learn about the fantastic […]
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