The 7th Annual Faculty Best Practices Showcase      

   Friday, March 10, 2006  8:30 am - 3:30 pm




   The Educational Activities Task Force Presents




   The 7th Annual Faculty-to-Faculty Best Practices Showcase:
             Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning

Keynote Speaker Biography

Professor Jean Runyon Professor Jean Runyon
Director of the College of Southern Maryland’s Innovative Teaching Center

Professor Jean Runyon is the director of the College of Southern Maryland’s Innovative Teaching Center. As the director, she oversees all faculty development activities for more than 500 full-time faculty and adjuncts. In addition, she coordinates the distance learning initiatives for the institution including providing training for faculty who develop and teach web-based and blended courses, telecourses, and telewebs.

Professor Jean Runyon is recognized by her students and her peers as a superior teacher in the traditional and distance learning classroom environment. She has demonstrated excellence in teaching throughout her 25-year career as an educator in all instructional delivery formats. In 2004, Professor Runyon received the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Northeast Region Faculty Member Award. She serves on the Training Subcommittee for the Quality Matters grant, conducts course peer review training, and is a certified peer reviewer. Her Information Age: Emerging Technologies course (ITS 1015) was one of the first courses to meet “quality expectations” and is the Maryland Distance Learning Association’s (MDLA) Course of the Year (2005). She serves on the board of directors for Maryland Online, is the Northeast Region representative on the Instructional Technology Council’s board of directors, and co-chairs MDLA’s Instructional Design Affinity Group.

Keynote Presentation

Quality Matters:
Inter-Institutional Quality Assurance in Online Learning

Quality assurance of online courses is of prime importance to various stakeholders in higher education. The FIPSE-funded Quality Matters (QM) project has created an inter-institutional continuous improvement process for assuring the quality of online courses. The credibility, reliability, and strength of this process stems from three core features of the project:
1) a process vetted by faculty experts,
2) review criteria and a rubric based in the research literature, national standards of best practice, and instructional design principles, and
3) participation by faculty, instructional designers, and institutions that is voluntary, open, collaborative, and supportive.
Experienced online faculty are trained to use a rubric to review and provide faculty with feedback on their online courses. The rubric consists of elements shown to positively impact student learning. QM then provides instructional design support for implementing suggested improvements. The process and tools are replicable, reliable, scalable, and adaptable to use in a variety of ways and settings.

This presentation will introduce you to the QM project and review rubric and how it can be applied to improve your own online courses as well be incorporated into an institution’s quality assurance activities.

www.QualityMatters.org


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