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qa.csuprojects.org

Building a Culture of Quality Assurance Efforts

Brett Christie, Ph.D. Director of Quality Learning and Teaching, bchristie@calstate.edu

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1. Provide equal-or-better quality instruction as face-to-face courses.
2. Assess courses and provide valuable feedback for course improvement.
3. Use student success metrics to measure the quality of �online courses.
4. Provide campus support for efforts to design and deliver �quality online courses through professional development �and support services.
5. Expand QuARRy repository of exemplars collected from faculty.

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Formal Course

Review-Certification

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Ashley Skylar, Ph.D. Program Manager, Quality Assurance, askylar@calstate.edu

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The QA Resource Repository is a collection of online teaching-learning exemplars indexed according to the CSU Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) instrument, with 57 objectives organized across 10 sections. This allows faculty and instructional developers to view multiple ways to effectively meet a particular objective.

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quarry.calstate.edu

Introduction to Teaching Effectively Online Using the QLT Instrument Includes orienting students to the online course, setting up the structure and navigation of a course, designing online modules for content delivery and engagement, methods for facilitating discussions, assessment tools, technology tools and student perspectives.

Reviewing Courses Using the QLT Instrument provides an in-depth experience with the QLT instrument and how to use objective-based examples to support reviewing and informing blended-online courses. Participants will engage in hands-on experiences using the QLT objectives to rate elements of a sample course and learning how to write helpful recommendations.

How do students rate certified courses? (1-5 Likert)

QA Training Courses

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric gives an overview of the principles of QM, the QM rubric, and the peer-review process. Participants engage in hands-on applying the sections of the QM rubric to a course, how to draft helpful recommendations, and applying the concept of alignment.

The Improving Your Online Course workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online and blended courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own courses and develop a course improvement plan.

Register for QA courses at http://tiny.cc/qa‐reg

3-week asynchronous online format

$25 per course

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