2025 QM Connect

Generative AI offers powerful tools to enhance clarity, measurability, and alignment within courses. Participants will leverage AI to refine learning objectives, with a focus on alignment with course assignments and materials support intended outcomes. Tips on evaluating AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance will be provided.

This poster will provide an example of how students can ethically use AI to revise and edit writing, and reflection on the process within a discussion assignment. Faculty will be able to take these examples and apply them to their own context, and create a draft of an assignment.

Join us for a celebratory and engaging kickoff symposium highlighting innovative online learning initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) throughout the QM community! This dynamic event will feature inspiring keynote speakers, poster sessions showcasing member-submitted initiatives, mini-presentations on exemplary practices, and interactive activities to foster networking and collaboration.

Join us for a conversation delving into the latest Quality Matters white paper, "From Automation to Transformation: AI Strategies for Personalized, Engaging, and Inclusive Online Course Design." In this session, we will explore key insights from the paper and offer practical strategies for using AI to support learner success, equity, and innovation. 

Transform your online course with engaging module introductions! Discover how faculty, designers, and media specialists created dynamic, media-rich videos—and how these strategies can be scaled or adapted by individual faculty regardless of institutional support.  

Discover how the UF Quality Rubric enhances student engagement and satisfaction in online Agricultural Education courses at the University of Florida. This poster will present research findings and practical applications, followed by a Q&A session. Key takeaways include understanding the rubric's impact, identifying effective course design elements, and exploring broader implications for online education across various disciplines and institutions.

This session is an interactive game show to introduce attendees to the QM Standards. This fun session will engage participants to apply QA frameworks to create high-quality courses that empower your learners and gamify faculty development. We will cover all 8 general standards in lightning rounds with reflection points between rounds. Participants will win prizes and learn how the QM Standards can inform the design of effective, high-quality courses.  

This interactive session equips QM Champions with a practical toolkit to navigate communication across institutional levels. Explore how faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and other staff connect—and sometimes clash—and leave with strategies to align messaging, build understanding, and foster collaboration in your QM journey.  

Join this interactive session on GPT Smashing, a method that blends AI tools to create dynamic, personalized science and engineering learning experiences. Experience how it integrates text, diagrams, simulations, and blueprints to make complex content engaging and comprehensible for educators. Discover its impact through examination of the findings of a research study conducted in a science education course, highlighting its potential for innovative, accessible instruction. 

This session presents a USF case study that transformed a text-heavy Canvas course into an engaging, QM-aligned experience using GenAI and accessible design tools. Attendees will gain simple strategies for dynamic instructional material enhancement, practical methods to boost learner engagement with refreshed visual design, and tips on selecting appropriate GenAI tools to efficiently improve course quality. Ideal for instructional designers with limited resources or those new to implementing AI in course design.