[VPAAEtal] CFEI Rewards Faculty for QM Training

[Academic Affairs]

Greetings Faculty,

You may have missed my email from February 18, but 20 of your colleagues are benefiting from it!  Quality Matters (QM) offers the Improve Your Online Course (IYOC) workshop for fulltime faculty currently teaching online or blended courses.  The Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation (CFEI) will cover the cost of registration.  Faculty who complete the training and application can receive a $500 stipend for their efforts.  Five faculty completed the training on March 24 and their feedback has been very positive.  Another 15 are registered for the IYOC workshops in April, May, and June.

"The 'Improving Your Online Course' (IYOC) training is very interesting and useful. One of the most important knowledge to me is the alignment between course objectives, module objectives, and supporting materials." -quote from Dr. Bo Han, Marketing & Business Analytics

The 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.  Participants come away with a plan for course improvement, so enrolling in the workshop with an online or blended course with a pre-developed course is required.

The CFEI is offering incentives for fulltime faculty who teach online or blended courses to complete the IYOC online course from QM.  The center will cover the cost of registration.  With successful completion, faculty will receive a $500 stipend.  Forms and details to register are located on the CFEI website<http://www.tamuc.edu/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/elearning/IYOC.aspx> or by contacting Greta Spradling<mailto:greta.spradling at tamuc.edu?subject=IYOC%20Registration>.
Available Workshop Dates:
April 7 - 21, 2016
May 12 - 26, 2016
May 26 - June 9, 2016
June 2 - 16, 2016

Thank you.

Greta B. Spradling l Course Design & Development Manager
Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation l Academic Affairs
Greta.Spradling at tamuc.edu<mailto:Greta.Spradling at tamuc.edu>

P.O. Box 3011 Commerce, Tx 75429-3011
Tel. 903.468.8687 l Fax 903.886.5991 l www.tamuc.edu/cfei<http://www.tamuc.edu/cfei>

Texas A&M University-Commerce

The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation (CFEI) is committed to providing high quality and timely service and support to our A&M-Commerce faculty.

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