(Here’s a hint: it’s easy-to-use, and highly effective, for course design and review…)

It’s Quality Matters! The eLearning department at Tacoma Community College has created this well-produced 9 minute video about Quality Matters. Grab a cup of coffee and take the [...]]]> What’s the one tool every faculty member should have in their instructional tool box?

(Here’s a hint: it’s easy-to-use, and highly effective, for course design and review…)

It’s Quality Matters! The eLearning department at Tacoma Community College has created this well-produced 9 minute video about Quality Matters. Grab a cup of coffee and take the time to watch every minute of it!

(click for video) Enjoy the video!

Although QM was designed for review of online courses, the QM review rubric is quite helpful for designing face-to-face courses, as well.

You will learn about:
· QM Faculty Learning Communities
· How individual colleges are using QM
· Why we’re using QM in Washington State’s Open Course Library Project
· What makes QM effective in designing and reviewing online courses
· Using the QM rubric

Everyone in the CTC system may use the one page, condensed, QM rubric, which is posted on the State Board website. Also, each campus has 50 copies of the full length, annotated rubric.

Want to learn more about Quality Matters?

Contact Boyoung Chae, bchae@sbctc.edu or 360.704.1011. Boyoung would be happy to answer any questions and help you use QM!

At Clark College contact Kathy Chatfield, Senior Instructional Designer and QM Master Reviewer, kchatfield@clark.edu.

Here is the Elluminate link. (just type in your name as you do not need a password)

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?password=M.CB2CB2664979AE8F3065444E874D4E

The Clark College eLearning team are following the Lecture Capture RFP very closely so that we will be set to take advantage of this new exciting [...]]]> Read about the latest projects and developments coming from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges in their quarterly Newsletter – The Browser. FALL09 EL Newsletter FINAL (2)

The Clark College eLearning team are following the Lecture Capture RFP very closely so that we will be set to take advantage of this new exciting technology as soon as it becomes available.  I have previous experience with lecture capture using the Tegrity system.  My online students found the video streamed mini-lectures a helpful addition to predominantly text-based course content.

Clark College has two Quality Matters certified courses: “Math 107 Math In Society” developed & taught by Jennifer Farney and “WS 201 Women Around the World” developed & taught by Ann Synder.  Our eLearning Senior Instructional Designer Kathy Chatfield is a Certified Quality Matters Master Reviewer.  Watch for upcoming Quality Matters training events throughout the year.

The new Gates Grant and course redesign project will require a series of posts!  I have reviewed the entire grant and will be participating in a number of  Elluminate sessions over the next two months.  This is a major statewide project and Clark College will definitely want to be involved.

Stay tuned for more information!