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Fresno State Quality Online Learning and Teaching (QLT)
Summer 2020 - Spring 2021
Proposal Summary: This past year has demonstrated the resilience of At Fresno State. Like most of higher education, over the past year our campus has pivoted to support teaching and learning. Here were some of the goals of the professional development for online and blended Learning:
- All Things Canvas
- Synchronous Video Tools
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
- Library and Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Student Engagement
- Humanizing your course
- Online instructor presence
- Active learning strategies
- Assignments and Assessments
- Low bandwidth options
MERLOT II
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Quality Assurance Results |
2020-2021 Successes
- Over 1000 faculty completed training
- 82 teaching associates
- Our Instructional Designer team
- Collaborations and relationship with our CO
- Committed faculty facilitators and faculty learners
- Our Campus Culture - Faculty Committed to Students
- Ongoing efforts for Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
Outcomes of our Quality Assurance Efforts
Faculty Reflections
FACULTY FACILITATORS
“Creating a learning environment that is flexible and accounts for the many challenges that can come up is important. In the end, I think all faculty and students want is grace."
“The actual tools, while very important, support the vision of delivering content to students in a way they can both understand and show what they understand.”
“I think many faculty had never taken an online course so they are now much better at understanding the experiences of our students this coming fall. ”
FACULTY LEARNERS“Watching so many of my colleagues panic at the prospect of a new online reality has made me grateful for the training I have received and eager to share it with others"
“The Canvas Ally links were very helpful in outlining instructions for improving accessibility, and I eventually managed to get perfect scores.”
“The Q1 course was very useful in approaching the (re)design of my classes for the virtual environment.”
Quality Assurance Project Results |
Quality Assurance Team
- Jolynne Blake, Instructional Designer
- Mary Bennett, Instructional Designer
- Sue Yang, Instructional Designer
- Walt Hebern, Instructional Designer
- Dr. Bryan Berrett, Director
Quality Assurance Coordinator
bryanberrett@csufresno.edu
Next Steps for Quality Assurance for 2021-2022
Our campus project plan for 2021-22 will align with the campus plan as we look to providing multiple course instructional options for the upcoming academic year. The campus wide adoption for Panopto will continue to be a critical factor while we leverage the QLT instrument for course creation or redesign, specifically Q3. We will continue to partner with our Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE) to continue to gather data on online and blended learning on campus including DWF and achievement gap data to align with GI2025.
With that data, our change management team, executive sponsor, and director of OIE will construct a project management timeline and plan that we will be implementing by the spring of 2022. These campus goals align with existing Quality Assurance and AL$ programs as well as activities on campus including Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and our implementation of the remediation software Ally. All summer faculty professional development will also include specific ways in which faculty can meet the QLT objectives and will lead them to QLT training in the coming years. Additionally, our team will be preparing approximately 60 faculty to teaching in a HyFlex learning environment this fall.
Currently, our faculty will be participating in one of three professional development opportunities offered by our campus as outline by the descriptions below:
Option 1: Q1: Introduction to Teaching Online Using QLT
- Approximately 20 hours for faculty learners
- Introduction to teaching online with the CSU QLT rubric representing the 9 sections of QLT. Content covered includes orienting students to the online course, setting up the structure and navigation of a course, designing online modules for content delivery and engagement, developing methods for facilitating discussions, developing assessment tools, using technology tools and experiencing an online course from a student perspective.
Option 2: Transforming your Teaching with Resilient Course Design
- Approximately 20 hours for faculty learners
- In this training faculty will engage with strategies and action steps for designing learning experiences with resilience and flexibility in mind. Topics will include planning for a highly engaging learner-centered course, creating an equitable learning environment, and transforming course content for maximum flexibility.
Option 3: Q3: Advanced QLT Course in Teaching Online
- Approximately 20 hours for faculty learners
- Advanced QLT course in creating a course and module structure that is in alignment with course objectives, incorporates social presence, equity-minded strategies, engagement strategies in synchronous and asynchronous activities, active learning with video, and alternative assessments. Participants will complete a QLT Core-24 self review on their own course for reflection to guide them as they progress through the course in identifying areas to improve on. The final project will include creating a video tour to highlight three course changes made in the course while completing the training.