{"id":2201,"date":"2013-10-07T10:06:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:06:06","slug":"quality-matters-conference-fun-and-informative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/quality-matters-conference-fun-and-informative\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Matters Conference: Fun and Informative!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had planned to submit my blog post while at the conference but I was so busy learning and networking that I'm back in the office now.\u00a0 So here's a quick summary of my experiences.\u00a0 The Quality Matters<\/a> organization is comprised of many dedicated professionals and the member institutions are equally concerned with developing and teaching quality online or hybrid courses (QM uses \"blended\"; we at Xavier use \"hybrid\") in order to have positive student outcomes. They're also big on \"takeaways\" so I have literally hundreds of resources now, and will be posting several key ones to CAT's Online Faculty Resource Center (debuting soon). For your information, here<\/a> are a number of the actual presentations that were posted as well.<\/p>\n

My takeaways from the conference are<\/p>\n

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  1. we can offer workshops for faculty on actually teaching online, which is entirely separate from developing the course<\/li>\n
  2. we need to do more to make our courses accessible from the beginning rather than create accommodations after the fact (I also learned that numbers are better than bullets for screen readers so I'll be using numbers from now on)<\/li>\n
  3. we don't need to reinvent the wheel--we can partner with other institutions to offer more for our students<\/li>\n
  4. size does matter, especially in online language courses<\/li>\n
  5. faculty preparation and skills are necessary components for SACS approval of online and hybrid courses\/programs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    and I could continue, but I think having begun and ended with faculty concerns really shows how important they are to student success and therefore why CAT is dedicated to assisting our faculty in developing and teaching online and hybrid courses for our students at Xavier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I had planned to submit my blog post while at the conference but I was so busy learning and networking that I'm back in the office now.\u00a0 So here's a quick summary of my experiences.\u00a0 The Quality Matters organization is comprised of many dedicated professionals and the member institutions are equally concerned with developing and ...continue reading \"Quality Matters Conference: Fun and Informative!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[232,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-2201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-online-learning","8":"tag-online-teaching","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-zv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1792,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/xula-online-real-faculty-real-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":2201,"position":0},"title":"XULA Online: Real Faculty, Real Learning","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"August 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you know that over 350 students participated in summer session I online courses? 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