Improve Your Online Course (IYOC) from Quality Matters

Quality Matters log

The “Improving Your Online Course” (IYOC) 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.The content is based on the 21 essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric.  …

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CFEI Haiku

Why CFEI?  by Felicity Grandjean   What’s higher ed about? Seek ideas at CFEI. Possibilities!   Teach, Learn, Write, & Serve. Quality education. Commerce Faculty!   Visit. Call. Email. Supporting our Faculty. It is our mission.   Faculty Center For resources & events. For lifelong learning.   Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation Gee Library, …

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Do you want to be lectured?

Sign of a Lecture in Progress

  A recent article in the Chronicle of Education features a letter from students responding to a study about the efficacy on lecture as the dominant model of “content delivery in college classes.  Even as discussions about active learning and project based assignments continuously ripple through higher education, it seems we find ourselves married to …

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Accessibility Considerations for Online Courses

Dear Faculty, Are you currently teaching an online course or are you planning on teaching an online course in the near future? To increase accessibility for all learners in your online course, you may want to adapt some of your course materials.   3Play Media has developed a host of resources for online and video …

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Microsoft 10 and Edge Support

Effective January 1, 2016, Pearson Higher Education digital products will support the new Microsoft Windows 10 operating system and Microsoft Edge, the new browser in Windows 10. Our Software Quality Engineering teams have tested all major Higher Ed products with Microsoft Windows 10 and Edge. Pearson teams will continue to test our products in Microsoft …

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